Erica,

The Registrars Committee of the AAM has a Rights & Repro website - on it
you will find the Isabella Stuart Gardner survey of charges.  While done a
few years ago, it is still in the general ball park and it has many other
useful features.

The URL is http://www.panix.com/~squigle/rarin/01rcsite.html   Click on
"Survey, Samples and Shortcuts", on the next page you will see the Isabella
Stuart Gardner Survey - the answer to your dreams will be there!  ;-)
The entire website has lots of other useful tidbits - some of them rather
major tidbits!

Suzanne Quigley
Chair, RARIN (rights & reproduction information network)

>We're attempting to review and  standardize all our fees and policies, and
>there has been some debate about establishing use fees for our photo
>colleciton.  We decided to follow the lead of another local museum, which
>charges a use fee and a small surcharge for reproduction costs.  However, a
>majority of our prints are requested by community members who want to use
>the photo copies as decoration.  Some of our board members feel that
>charging a "use fee" would be insulting to these people, and want to charge
>them a *much* higher surcharge instead.  While the bottom line would be the
>same, it would then appear that we are giving commercial enterprises a
>price break on the surcharge.
>
>How do other museums decide costs for photo reprints?  Would anyone be
>willing to e-mail ro mail me a copy of their use and reproduction fee
>schedules?  Does anyone employ separate policies for private and public use?

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