Image permissions/copyright

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Did UC Press say whether that applied to the tracings of the Mendoza codex?
I was 
going to use some bits from the "Pictorial Parallel Image Replicas" marked
as *
tracings* by Jean Cuker Sells from page 8 of that section of the paperback
to label 
details of a European painting. So I wonder if the Bodleian has the rights
to the 
tracings. I'm only using them to mark some details 2-tecpatl through
10-tecpatl, and 
was  copying the details from the tracings because they're more legible
than the 
original with its blue paint.  

For that one illustration, an alternative would be to write "ce acatl" etc.
phonetically, 
since the details are labels. I wonder what the story is for tiny details
though. The 
illustration is an extreme case since 1-acatl is from another codex and the
labels are 
on details from a painting, and I was hoping UC Press, Vienna, and
Patrimonio 
Nacional would just okay it without charging anything, in other words there
would 
have to be permission, but permission might be free. I wonder what Vienna
would be 
likely to charge for one ce-acatl. (see attached) 
Susan Gilchrist
Original Message:
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From: José Rabasa jrabasa at CALMAIL.BERKELEY.EDU
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 09:49:54 -0700
To: NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: Image permissions/copyright


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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