Copyright issues

[Geoff Read]

All I could find online about a fees structure at the NHM is quoted below.

"Visitors are requested, where appropriate, to make provision through
their funding bodies for Bench Fees or a Research Support Grant. A
charge is mandatory if the collections are consulted for commercial
purposes. Information on facilities for visitors, levels of Bench Fees /
Research Support Grants and commercial charges is available  from
Collections Managers."

[see: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/dvcollmn.html]

There would appear to be some latitude for the impoverished.

As for specimen copyright:

"Specimens in the collections may not be photographed, imaged,
reproduced or published in any format without prior permission being
obtained from the relevant Collections Manager. It will normally be a
condition of granting such permission that copyright in any such images
will be ceded to  the Trustees of The Natural History Museum."

[see:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/science_marketing/bioresource/access.ht
ml]

I doubt the scientific staff had much of  a hand in wording that! It does
seem a teeny bit unrealistic.


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   Geoff Read <gread at actrix.gen.nz>