The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts is based on a consensus of professionals in the visual arts who use copyrighted images, texts, and other materials in their creative and scholarly work and who, through discussion groups, identified best practices for using such materials.
Learn about copyright and your options for preserving your rights when publishing. From the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office New York, NY. CC-BY
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Finding Openly Licensed Images
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This section lists sources that provide images for a wide range of uses, including academic and scholarly use, with a focus on images suitable for publication.
From Stanford University, provides an introduction to the permissions process. Various sections address website permissions, academic & educational permissions, and releases. "Copyright Research" provides a very detailed look at researching copyright ownership of a work.
From the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office, includes information on contacting rights owners, sample permissions letters, and links to collective rights organizations.
The Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC) program is intended to assist the user in assessing the intellectual property status of a specific image documenting a work of art, a designed object, or a portion of the built environment.
