The W. H. Mathers Museum at Indiana University charges $200 for a one time
commercial use of its images, a fee which is waived for non-commercial
scholarly uses. When Kevin's Costner's production company asked us for
"perpetual rights in any medium..." we immediately changed our policy
statement to read, in capital letters, "THE MATHERS MUSEUM DOES NOT GRANT
PERPETUAL RIGHTS."

Thomas Kavanagh, Ph.D.



On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Margaret Lyman wrote:

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> A couple of days ago I was contacted by a television company who would like
> to use images from my website in one of more upcoming film projects for
> Discovery Health Channel.
> 
> The researcher asked me to provide them "the costs for World rights and all
> media in perpetuity (excluding cinematic release) for use within a
> documentary program".   I have written back to ask them to be a bit more
> specific as to which images they want, but as to quoting a price I'm a bit
> snookered as I have no idea what the 'going rate' for something like this
> might be.  Obviously, I'm not granting exclusivity.  
> 
> You no doubt have much more experience with this sort of thing.  Would you
> able to tell me an acceptable price range for this sort of thing? 
> 
> Jim Mundi
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