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Terms and conditions for free image service
Please refer to Terms of use for the Standard Terms of Use
applicable to this website
The British Museum has made every effort to identify copyright
holders of objects and to obtain permission to include images on
the website. Any omissions are unintentional and we will endeavour
to rectify these as soon as possible, once we are notified.
You are reminded that if a work of art, sculpture or work of
artistic craftsmanship is still in the artist’s copyright (where
for example the artist is still alive or has died within the last
70 years) you will need to obtain the separate permission of the
artist or his or her estate or successor in title in order to
reproduce the work. We are not able to help you in tracing artists
or their successors in title. Some may be registered with DACS
(www.dacs.org.uk).
This free digital image service is managed by usage rather than
user. We offer non-exclusive licences to use the selected material
free of charge. By registering with us you may use available
digital images that we email to you conditional upon our
Standard Terms of use and, in summary, the following Terms:
- You should be an individual or a charity, society,
institution or trust existing exclusively for public
benefit
- You may use images for private purposes in education, teaching,
academic study and research
- You may publish images in a book, article, thesis or booklet,
provided that the publication is non-commercial in purpose, and of
an educational, scholarly or academic nature and has a print-run
of not more than 4,000
- You may make “one-time” use only
- Reproduction sizes for images must not exceed A5 size
- All images must be credited as follows: © Trustees of the
British Museum
- No copyright or proprietary right is conveyed with the use of
any image supplied by us
- Images may not be passed on for third-party use
- Images may not be used on any electronic media
- Images may be cropped but not changed or manipulated in any way
without written permission from the British Museum
- Images may not be used in any way which could be considered to
be deceptive or which could reflect unfavourably upon the good name
or reputation of the British Museum
In the event of any identified breach of our Standard terms of
use we may take any appropriate action to constrain further use
and/or seek financial recompense.