> Date sent:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:01:10 +0300
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> From:           Amalyah Keshet <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:        Re: Copyright laws and charges
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> At 15:52 17/04/98 +0000, you wrote:
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> >Currently the Durban Local History Museums are reviewing the copyright
> >legislation that governs its collection.  This exercise has highlighted a
> >number of unanswered questions for our organisation which I know other
> >institutions deal with daily.
> >
> >Firstly what do other history museums charge for the usage of images of
> >original artifacts they hold, in books, on covers, invitations, for
> >posters, for films, CD roms, fashion shoots,etc?  Secondly do you impose
> >a inter museum royalty fee?  Thirdly, I am keen to obtain information
> >about copyright legislation that governs museums, preferably ones used by
> >museums to guide them.
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >Rooksana Omar
> >Acting Director
> >Local History Museums, Durban
I work in the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa and we oftern
lend photographs for publications.  I charge a R 50.00 handling fee
plus a fee if the slide goes lost.  This is to be paid when the
material/ slide/photograph goes lost and it is the current replace
value.  We are busy working on a copyright policy and agreement
document.  We do expect a copy of the publication/video or film in
which the slide was used.  As the material go out on loan it must be
returned.  We then expect them to acknowledge the Transvaal Museum
in the publication/ film/ video.  They must always use a courier as
well.
Heidi Fourie
Collection Manager
Transvaal Museum
South Africa
> >








> Charges for use of images follow the going market rates, whether that
> market is defined as "the museum image market" or the general commercial
> market.  For the "museum" market, a good guide is the Visual Resources
> Assoc. Special Bulletin No. 10, 1996, "Guide to Rights and Reproduction at
> American Art Museums."   For "fashion shoots" or film crew visits,
> compensation should be based on the cost to the museum for accomodating
> them -- often quite high, when one sits down and figures it out.  Man-hours
> spent on arrangements, security, staff accompanying and supervising the
> crew, conservation staff supervision, electricity, etc.  In effect, every
> minute the museum's staff has to put aside its work and work for the crew,
> should be compensated  for.  (Also make sure the crew is insured.)
>
> By "inter-museum royalty fee" I assume you mean do you charge other museums
> repro rights fees for use of your images.  This is up to each museum to
> decide; often museums have reciprocal waiver arrangements like this --
> emphasis on the word reciprocal -- although one would expect all costs
> involved in image supply to be paid.
>
> Copyright legislation is not particularized to museums.  The same
> legislation that governs
> everyone else, governs museums.  If I'm not mistaken, in the US, there is
> one article in the copyright law (section 104?) that deals with certain
> provisions for libraries, and the new copyright legislation in Canada
> deals with provisions for  libraries, archives, and museums (apparently the
> first time the term "museum" has appeared in such legislation.)  But, local
> law "governs."
>
> One very important point of copyright  law affecting museums is artists'
> copyright and moral rights.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
>
> amalyah keshet
> head of visual resources
> (photographic services / rights & reproductions)
> the israel museum, jerusalem
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> fax: +972-2-670-8064
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