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Digital Image Database: Permitted Uses

Images within the Carnegie Mellon Digital Image Database are only to support Carnegie Mellon University classroom teaching and learning.

Images should not be downloaded or otherwise used without permission by the copyright holder. Publication of images in any form, such as in dissertations, theses, personal and course web pages is not permitted without written permission by the copyright holder (if located within the database, see "Source" information in the image/object’s record).

For information on the university's policy on copyright, please see the Copyright Policy of Carnegie Mellon University.

The following are copyright sites with a focus on digital images:

• Copyright and Digital Images (The Catholic University of America, Office of General Counsel)
  
  
• Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images (Society of American Archivists)
  Response ... to the draft guidelines developed by the Conference on Fair Use.
  
  
• Image Collection Guidelines (Visual Resources Association)
  "The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections."
  
  
• A Proposal for Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images
  "Copyright Crash Course" comments on draft guidelines developed during the CONFU process.
  
  
• A Proposal for Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images (Conference on Fair Use)
  12/3/96 draft.