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Guidelines for Using Images and Text from The Imaging Service Center for Northern California Libraries

The Imaging Service Center provides the information contained on this website, including reproductions of certain items from the collections of participating libraries, for NON-COMMERCIAL, PERSONAL or RESEARCH USE ONLY.

Any other use, including but not limited to commercial or scholarly reproductions, redistribution, publication or transmission, whether by electronic means or otherwise, without prior written permission from the libraries owning the materials is strictly prohibited.

Granting or withholding of permission is determined by each Library on a case by case basis, and a usage fee may be required, depending on the type of proposed use.

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Users should be aware that materials made available through this website may be subject to additional restrictions, including, but not limited to, copyright and the rights of privacy and publicity of parties other than the owning Library. Users are solely responsible for determining the existence of such rights and for obtaining any permissions, and paying any associated fees, which may be necessary for the proposed use.

United States Copyright Law
The copyright law of the United StatesTitle 17, United States Code governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material.
Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Institutions particpating with the Imaging Services for Northern California Libraries reserve the right to refuse to accept a copying order if it is deemed that fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.

For more information about copyright law and how it applies to information found on the Internet, see the Copyright Considerations page from UCSD and the Copyright and Intellectual Property Resources page from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Stanford also has an extensive web site that deals with copyright and fair use.

The US Copyright Office provides detailed information on copyright issues.