Katydid CD ROM = Copyright issues

[christian thompson]

Sound great, and except for the price, I would very much interested in having a copy.
I will, however, send you a copy of the Diptera Data Dissemination Disk, volume 1, a CD-ROM scientific serial published by the North American Dipterists' Society.

But what I am really curious about your statement:

this unique CD includes nearly 7,000 high
quality color images of specimens, mostly of  actual types, photographed
in major museum collections in Europe, North America and Australia. 

And how you handled the COPYRIGHT issue. As you know The Natural History Museum, London, now claims copyright on all images of its specimens, especially types.

And I am curious as to how others react to the issue of copyright of images of type specimens which are supposedly believed by some to be the property of SCIENCE (or I quess under the Convention on Biodiversity of the country of origin).






F. Christian Thompson
Systematic Entomology Lab., USDA
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C. 20560
(202) 382-1800 voice
(202) 786-9422 FAX
cthompso at sel.barc.usda.gov