Art, Architecture, Art History and Design

“As both creators and users of copyrighted and public domain materials, members of the UC academic community should understand and responsibly exercise the rights accorded them under U.S. copyright law. The information provided on this site is intended as a guide to copyright at the University of California, and should not be taken as legal advice.”

A page by UC Davis Library's Scholarly Communications unit summarizing UC Davis affiliates' rights regarding their original works as well as the use of copyrighted materials in other publications.

Kenneth Crews, director of the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office authored this study.

“The principal objectives of this study were to gather a representative sample of art museum license agreements; to analyze their similarities and differences with respect to both terminology and policies; and to produce a systematic inventory of the range of issues addressed in and posed by such licensing agreements and the different ways in which museums have responded to these issues. This inventory and analysis has sought to provide insight into the issues of copyright and licensing that are of concern to art museums and to educational and scholarly users of art images.”

This work was funded by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

An excellent summary of when copyrighted works enter the public domain. Author: Peter B. Hirtle

“This Code of Best Practices provides visual-arts professionals with a set of principles addressing best practices in the fair use of copyrighted materials. It describes how fair use can be invoked and implemented when using copyrighted materials in scholarship, teaching, museums, archives, and in the creation of art.”