This request for information is being cross-posted to Museum-L and
Libref-L.  Please forward it to colleagues who may be able to assist us.
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The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library has extensive holdings of
photographic images (in excess of 200,000).  My colleagues in Visual
Resources wish to know if other museums and/or libraries copyright
individual photographic images in their collections.  This question relates
especially to those images which are requested for use in periodical and
book publications.

If your institution does copyright photographic images, it would be useful
for us to know when the application for copyright is usually initiated.  Is
it at the time a contract is drawn up as part of a rights and reproductions
transaction?  Or are selected images copyrighted in anticipation of their
use by other publishers?  And if so, how are such decisions made.

Please respond privately and I will summarize responses to the list.  Many
thanks in advance for your consideration and assistance.

Liz Ackert



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  Liz Ackert ([log in to unmask])
  Public Services Librarian
  Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library
  P.O. Box 1776 / 415 North Boundary Street
  Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
  Phone (804) 220-7419  Fax (804) 221-8902

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