MRP: Copyright: text, images & maps

Copyright: text, images & maps

Editorial history

06/03/12, CSG: Created page

Overview

This page provide an overview of the copyright policy as applied to text, images and maps of a number of important sources used by this wiki.

It also provides a more general survey of copyright policy as it is being developed for digital delivery of non-commercial academically oriented services

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Copyright acknowledgement overview

Wikipedia Commons provides a useful anatomy of copyright status for images which are out of copyright in various jurisdictions.

See wikipedia commons entry on - Copyright Tags

Copyright policies & licences

Bibliothèque Nationale de France: non-commercial use licence

See BNF non-commercial reproduction conditions

British History Online user agreement & licence

See BHOL terms of use

British Library photography policy

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British Museum standard terms of use licence

See British Museum standard terms of use licence

The above licence is intended for approved purposes which are exclusively non commercial and:

- Educational;
- Academic;
- Scholarly; or
- Motivated by private interest

The small images referred to above under the BM standard terms of use licence may be incorporated into a website, but not the larger images referred to below' under the free digital image service

See Terms and conditions for free image service

The Museum will also grant a licence to use a larger version of an image subject to additional terms and conditions. These include:

- using images for private purposes in education, teaching, academic study and research
- publishing images in a book, article, thesis or booklet, provided that the publication is non-commercial in purpose, and of an educational, scholarly or academic nature and has a print-run of not more than 4,000

However, these terms and conditions specify: "Images may not be used on any electronic media", though "Images may be cropped but not changed or manipulated in any way without written permission from the British Museum"

There will be no charge for this service, subject to the usage meeting the full terms of use of the free image service

The image will be supplied in JPEG format, with the longest edge at 2,500 pixels, which will appear at a maximum of 21 cm (A5) when printed at 300 dpi. Please note the image may not have been cleaned or colour-managed

You will need to register with your name, address and email address, and give details of the use you will make of the image. It will then be sent to you as an attachment to an email.

Copyright Clearance Centre Inc

See Copyright Clearance Centre Inc

- Covers audio, blogs, books, e-books, journals, e-journals, images, monographic series, multimedia, newspapers, vidoe, and websites

- Examples of permissions: pay-per use (e.g. electronic course material; share content electronically

- Looking at some pricing examples, using the OUP's Social History of Medicine for electronic course material to be shared on an academic intranet, the pricing algrothm appears to be driven by Year of publication, number of pages, number of students exposed to work, length of time (in years) licence requested

Creative Commons licences

See Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) - Broad terms

See Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) - Legal text

See Creation Commons organisation

See Creative Commons licensing of photographs

Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)

DACS is a not-for-profit visual arts rights management organisation

See: DACS website

GNU Free Documentation License

See GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

- Designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for free works
- "The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially"
- "This License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others"
- "This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft license designed for free software"
- "This License is not limited to software manuals; it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference"

Google Map terms & conditions

Google terms of service

Google Maps/Earth Additional Terms of Service

Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service

Legal Notices for Google Maps/Google Earth and Google Maps/Google Earth APIs

Luna Commons terms & conditions

See Luna Commons terms & conditions

- The images and other materials on the Luna website are for educational, personal, and non-commercial use only, or for "fair use" as defined in the United States copyright laws. Users are subject to any additional terms or restrictions which may be applicable to the individual file or resource.
- US copyright law & fair use

Museum of London: Copyright & licensing terms

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The National Archives, Kew: Copyright & licensing terms

The National Archives has a Copyright webpage

See DocumentsOnline license

- Digital copies may only be used for private study and non-commercial research
- Education purposes (in course of instruction or examination, or preparation for instruction or examination)

See National Archives images on Flickr

- Cropping and image manipulation allowed
- Credit TBA and include the catalogue reference

See Crown Copyright & Open Government Licence

See Commercial use

- Print publications with titles of over 200 copies for which cover price charged
- E-books
- Internet republication

See TNA policy on take down and reclosure of public information

See TNA photography on-site policy statement

- Photographs of manuscripts allowed on-site
- Photographs of screens allowed on-site

National Portrait Gallery