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lu harper
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
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Has anyone had experience with reproduction rights for magazine ads?

A commercial photographer took an "art" shot of one of our 19th-century
Italian sculptures and it seems to be a hit. We had a first request for it
to be used for a beauty industry ball invitation/ad. And now it has been
requested for use in 10 ads over the course of a year in 5 respected
national building trade magazines.

We are asking, of course, for credit and proper identification of the piece
in the ads.

For permission to use our sculpture, we feel we should also charge a
one-time usage fee plus something extra for each subsequent ad.  The
question is what to charge.  Anyone have any ideas?

Candace J. Adelson
Curator of European Art
Memorial Art Gallery
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-1415
tel. 716-473-7720 ext. 3010
fax. 716-473-6266
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website: www.rochester.edu/MAG