DETAILS ON COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND CRITERIA OF
"FAIR USE"
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/library/faq.html
www.benedict.com/basic/fairuse/fairtest.htm
For more information on
copyright law, please consult
Benedict O'Mahoney's The
Copyright Web Site.
QUOTES
FROM SELECTED MUSEUM WEBSITES ON "FAIR
USE"
From the Website of MoMA Museum of
Modern Art, New York:
"Fair
Use is Permitted
Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of
protected materials for noncommercial educational purposes,
such as teaching, scholarship, research, criticism,
commentary, and news reporting. Unless otherwise noted,
users who wish to download or print text and image files
from MoMA's Web site for such uses are welcome to do so
without MoMA's express permission. Users must cite the
author and source of this material as they would material
from any printed work; the citation should include the URL
"http://www.moma.org".
By downloading, printing, or otherwise using text and
image files from this Web site, users agree that they will
limit their use of such files to fair use, and will not
violate MoMA's or any other party's proprietary rights."
From the Website of Metropolitan
Museum, New York:
"May I put unaltered
images or text from the Metropolitan Museum's Web site on
my personal Web site?"
"Yes, so long as the site takes in no advertisements and no
sponsors, does not charge a fee for services, and does not
offer any product or service for sale. The images must
remain unaltered. All of the accompanying caption
information must be included without alteration, and the
citation should include the URL "www.metmuseum.org."
From the Website of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art:
"Access to and use of any and all
text, artwork, photographs and other files and data on
this web site (the "Site") are subject to the
following terms and conditions:
1 (...) The
Museum expressly prohibits the copying, display,
publication, distribution, modification, or exploitation
for commercial or other purposes of any protected
Material(s) on the Site, except
for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright
laws, and as described below.
2.
Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of
protected Material(s) for limited, purely non-commercial
education purposes, such as teaching, scholarship,
research, criticism, commentary and news reporting. Unless
otherwise noted, users who wish to download or print data,
text, image or other files included in the Materials may
do so without the Museum's prior express permission. Users
must, however, cite the author and source of this material
as they would material from any printed or other work, and
the citations should include the URL "http://www.philamuseum.org".
The Museum does not warrant or represent that use of
Material(s) displayed on the Site will not infringe the
rights of third parties not owned or affiliated with the
Museum."
From the Website of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco:"Personal and educational non-commercial uses
(of this photo) are
permitted and encouraged."
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