Hi All some advice would be appreciated - my wife and I run a website on soil invertebrates http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz that we developed from a grant from a government agency my wife got. It is a freely available website which contains a lot of images of animals. We retain the copyright to these images. Recently we were approached by the Museum of New Zealand who is putting together an online encyclopedia that will take several years to build. They are currently working on a natural history section and want to re-use some of our images for their encyclopedia. At first it was just one or two images which we sent free with just a promise of acknowledgement of source etc. They offered to pay costs but it didn't seem worth it for just one or two images. However, now they want quite a few more as they move on to new parts of the encyclopedia. We are now wondering whether we ought to charge for the use of these images. Part of me thinks we should just keep agreeing to give them away as it is for a good cause, but another part says I should be recouping some costs for future enablement.
What do you think? Should we charge and if so how much? The images will be low-res web-only images and we will still own the copyright to them. Any suggestions welcome Alastair PS the front page to our website is running slow at the moment - there is a small bug in the counter which we keep forgetting to fix. If you want to skip this page and go the image gallery you can try this link http://soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/gallery.php -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
