Image permissions/copyright

[Michael Stevenson]

A link that concerns copyright issues with art on-line
but seems pertinent to this discussion. 

http://www.medicif.org/dig_library/StateArt/Ipr/Thijm/thijm.html

Best,

Michael Stevenson



--- Caroline Dodds <ced44 at CAM.AC.UK> wrote:

> Re: Image permissions/copyrightThanks so much to
> everyone who has taken the time to think about my
> question. I am very grateful for all the advice
> offered - it is really much appreciated. And also
> apologies for sending a message intended only for
> Max to the entire list! 
> 
> Just to contribute slightly to the debate - from my
> recent experience, I think that it is usually the
> libraries who claim copyright, but when I looked at
> the UC website you are now able to request copyright
> permissions for pages from their publications
> (including the Mendoza) online, so I presume that
> they are claiming the right to the four volume
> facsimile content. It is possible, of course, that
> they have come to an agreement with the Bodleian to
> that effect. 
> 
> And thinking about Susan's question - I think I am
> right in saying that a friend avoided a number of
> copyright permissions by creating his own
> line-drawings of images. If an image has been
> redrawn or modified in some way, I think that
> measure of whether you need permission is whether it
> is 'substantially' the same as the original. I just
> wondered whether, if you were prepared to draw your
> own version, if that might be a feasible solution,
> but it may still need permission, these things
> really seem to vary! 
> 
> Thanks to all again.
> Yours,
> Caroline
> -----
> Dr. Caroline Dodds
> Junior Research Fellow
> Sidney Sussex College  
> CB2 3HU
> 
> ced44 at cam.ac.uk
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: José Rabasa 
>   To: NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU 
>   Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 5:49 PM
>   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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