These are good and big questions.  I searched the museum-l archives to see
if this had come up before and didn't find the information I was looking
for.  I have the same questions.  I would ask that respondents reply to the
whole list so that we can all benefit from the discussion on this topic.

Thank you.

Kathy

>Our art museum has had several recent requests to use our website
>or various pages in tutorial type CD-Rom's (for-profit).  Both firms
>which have contacted me have asked to use our images or html
>free of charge!
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>Several colleagues around the state have had similar requests.  We
>all have fee schedules set up for permission to publish standard
>images for print and video.  We wonder how other museums are
>handling these requests (i.e. granting or denying permission for
>such CD-Rom's, and what fees are being charged for permission to
>publish)?
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>Jean Lancaster Collier
>Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia
>http://www.virginia.edu/~bayly/bayly.html
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Katherine Jones-Garmil
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Harvard University
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