COPYRIGHT POLICY - FAIR USE GUIDELINES

To demonstrate what Museums and their Websites have to offer, I quoted information and images from the Websites presented. Museum logos on my Website all function as links to the original Museum Websites and do not imply the Museum has formally approved the content of the RODIN-WEB and/or the use of materials from their Websites.

Instead, I have made sure that the RODIN-WEB pages comply with the Fair Use guidelines as indicated on the MoMA and other Museum Websites (see below).

The copyright of these imported contents remains with the original proprietors. Requests to reproduce these contents should be directed to the original copyright holders; use of such contents should comply with their guidelines.

Considerable amounts of labour and money were invested to do academic research and to design this Website. As an as an unique collection and organization of information, it is my intellectual property and protected by copyright. Linking to this Website and quotation are allowed and encouraged within the limits of Fair Use and provided the URL www.RODIN-WEB.org is quoted. Copying my link collection or substantial parts thereof  into other link collections or web catalogs, commercially managed or not, is not allowed without my prior written permission.

COPYRIGHT ISSUES AND ACCEPTED CRITERIA OF "FAIR USE"

  http://fairuse.stanford.edu/library/faq.html

  www.benedict.com/basic/fairuse/fairtest.htm

For more information, please consult Benedict O'Mahoney's The Copyright Web Site.

 QUOTES FROM MUSEUM WEBSITES ON "FAIR USE"

  From the Website of MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York:

"Fair Use is Permitted

Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of protected materials for noncommercial educational purposes, such as teaching, scholarship, research, criticism, commentary, and news reporting. Unless otherwise noted, users who wish to download or print text and image files from MoMA's Web site for such uses are welcome to do so without MoMA's express permission. Users must cite the author and source of this material as they would material from any printed work; the citation should include the URL "http://www.moma.org".

By downloading, printing, or otherwise using text and image files from this Web site, users agree that they will limit their use of such files to fair use, and will not violate MoMA's or any other party's proprietary rights."

  From the Website of Metropolitan Museum, New York:

"May I put unaltered images or text from the Metropolitan Museum's Web site on my personal Web site?"

"Yes, so long as the site takes in no advertisements and no sponsors, does not charge a fee for services, and does not offer any product or service for sale. The images must remain unaltered.
All of the accompanying caption information must be included without alteration, and the citation should include the URL "www.metmuseum.org."

  From the Website of the Philadelphia Museum of Art:

"Access to and use of any and all text, artwork, photographs and other files and data on this web site (the "Site") are subject to the following terms and conditions:

1 (...) The Museum expressly prohibits the copying, display, publication, distribution, modification, or exploitation for commercial or other purposes of any protected Material(s) on the Site, except for the purposes of fair use as defined in the copyright laws, and as described below.

2. Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of protected Material(s) for limited, purely non-commercial education purposes, such as teaching, scholarship, research, criticism, commentary and news reporting. Unless otherwise noted, users who wish to download or print data, text, image or other files included in the Materials may do so without the Museum's prior express permission. Users must, however, cite the author and source of this material as they would material from any printed or other work, and the citations should include the URL "http://www.philamuseum.org". 
The Museum does not warrant or represent that use of Material(s) displayed on the Site will not infringe the rights of third parties not owned or affiliated with the Museum."

  From the Website of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco:

"Personal and educational non-commercial uses (of this photo) are permitted and encouraged."

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