One way to approach this problem is to ask yourself this question: is  
the photographer's request consistent with the purposes of the  
museum? Does publishing a blurred photograph of a gallery in order to  
illustrate a work of fiction further the museum's educational  
mission? I suspect that the answer to the question would be negative,  
and then you need to probe no farther; the other questions are  
irrelevant.

Lonn Taylor
Fort Davis, Texas
On Apr 5, 2006, at 2:23 PM, =?windows-1252?Q?Nicole_Moore?= wrote:

> To add more information to the problem I orginally posted
> I am looking at a real world problem where I need to come up with a
> solution to a photographer wanting to take pictures inside the  
> gallery of=
>
> a fictional museum for a magazine article. The objects would be  
> blurred =
>
> and the museum would be credited for their gallery.
> Questions arising from this (that I hope to base my research on) are:
> 1. Have other museums allowed this?
> 2. Are the objects in the gallery part of the museum's permanent
> collection?
> 3. If the items are blurred and not easily identified, will there  
> be a =
>
> need to obtain photo copyrights from the artist.
>
>
> If there is anyone who has dealt with a similar situation or knows  
> where =
> I
> can find sources on it, I would greatly appreciate it
>
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