Thanks everyone for the feedback. I appreciate the input!
Jesse
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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
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?
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
We don't use images under copyright for which we don't have permission, but try
to ensure that the permissioned copyrighted material we do use is not copied
indiscriminately. Our statement on the UTEP Biodiversity Collections website,
for example is as follows:
Original materials on this web
In addition to Rob's suggestion, I would add that you'll want to have a Digital
Millenium Copyright Act take-down notice on your website as well. I'm the lucky
recipient, but can report that activity is very, very, very low.
This doesn't really relate to thumbnails, which are indeed allowed
We take a pretty conservative approach here and just don't use them. Even
if it can be construed as fair use, you still have to defend that use in
court if someone sues you. It's cheaper to just err on the side of
permission-only.
Shana
Exhibit Developer
Science Museum of Minnesota
On Tue, Aug
