Hi Jesse, Many museums base their policies in this regard on the "Policy on the Use of 'Thumbnail' Digital Images in Museum Online Initiatives" from the Association of Art Museum Directors. There's a link to download it as a PDF from this page:
https://aamd.org/standards-and-practices Hope this helps, Rob Rob Lancefield Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA rlancefield [at] wesleyan [dot] edu | tel. 860.685.2965 On 8/27/13 9:23 AM, Jesse Henderson wrote: > Hi all, > > I am just wondering if any institutions out there (especially university > museums) use images still under copyright for which they haven't been able > to track down permission on their website? If so, do you have any kind of a > Fair Use statement on your site regarding the use of the images? > > Thanks, > Jesse > > > ------------------------------------------ > Jessica Henderson, MLIS > Visual Resources Curator > Department of Art & Art History > Colgate University > 13 Oak Drive > Hamilton, NY 13346 > 315.228.7594 > jhenderson at colgate.edu > www.colgate.edu/visualresources<https://sites.google.com/a/colgate.edu/colgatevr/> > about.me/jesse.henderson