Image permissions/copyright

[José Rabasa]

Dear Caroline and Max:

It is my impression that the days when publishers gave permission are 
over, given that libraries claim rights. This was for instance the 
case with a request to use images from the UC Berkeley edition of the 
Mendoza; they just sent me to the Bodleyian. Having said this, 
Caroline, you may as well try Max's recommendation first. It might 
work.  I am currently waiting for authorization to use a reproduction 
of a a page from  the facsimile of the Florentine Codex. Who has the 
rights? The photographer, the publisher or the  Biblioteca Medicea 
Laurenziana?  I have the impression that we had this discussion 
before and that the general opinion was that it is the libraries who 
hold the rights. Unfortunately, I might add. But this is not the 
place for nationalist rant.

Jose

>Dear Caroline,
>
>In my Aztecs, Moors, and Christians (2000), I used images from the
>Codex Borbonicus, ed. Karl Nowotny (1974), courtesy of Akademische
>Druck-u. Verlagsanstalt; the Florentine Codex, 13 vols., ed. and
>trans. Anderson and Dribble (1950-1982), courtesy of the University of
>Utah Press and the School of American Research; and the Codice Aubin
>[Historia de la nacion mexicana, ed. and trans. Charles Dibble
>(1963)], courtesy of Editorial Porrua. None of these publishers asked
>for anything more than the proper acknowledgment.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Max Harris
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Caroline Dodds <ced44 at CAM.AC.UK>
>Date: Monday, August 8, 2005 11:55 am
>Subject: Image permissions/copyright
>
>>  Dear Colleagues,
>>
>>  I am currently working on my first book for Palgrave (a
>>  development of my
>>  doctoral thesis about gender in Aztec culture) and I was hoping
>>  that those
>>  on the list with far greater experience might be prepared to offer
>>  some
>>  advice about copyright permissions. As is usual with these things,
>>  I am
>>  wrangling with the publisher about costs of permissions and who
>>  will pay
>>  them (mostly me!) and so have been investigating the best place to
>>  obtain
>>  some images. The cost of permissions vary tremendously between
>>  institutions
>>  and I was wondering if anyone could recommend any particularly
>>  good (and
>>  preferably affordable) sources of Aztec images.
>>
>>  The pictures in the book will be black and white in-text images,
>>  not plates,
>>  and are mostly intended to illustrate the text and evoke the sense
>>  of the
>>  culture, rather than to be critical to the discussion, which gives
>>  me quite
>>  a lot of flexibility. Any advice or suggestions which you could
>>  offer would
>>  be much appreciated. Thank you all in advance.
>>
>>  Yours,
>>  Caroline
>>  -----
>>  Dr. Caroline Dodds
>>  Junior Research Fellow
>>  Sidney Sussex College
>>  CB2 3HU
>>
>>  ced44 at cam.ac.uk
>>
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