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Visual Resources Center

Copyright Policy and Guidelines

In many educational disciplines, using illustrative images is very important for both instruction and scholarship. Visual Resource Center produces, duplicates, and digitizes slides and other images in accordance with the following "fair use" guidelines.

    Producing slides and digital images from copyrighted books.
  • images of suitable quality are not readily available at a reasonable cost and in a reasonable time
  • images will not be shared between or among other educational institutions if such use is prohibited by the terms of their acquisition.
  • images will be used for comment, criticism, review, analysis, discussion, or other similar purpose associated with instruction or scholarship
  • images will be used for purposes that are both nonprofit and educational.

    • If these conditions can be met, it is likely that making images and digital files from published materials will be within "fair use" as outlined in the Copyright Act of 1976.

      Internet resources and web pages

    Due to the nature of our collection, when VRC digital database becomes available online in the future, it will be strictly password protected and shared only among the CSUSB community for the educational purpose.

    For more information, please check the following website and guidelines or consult Visual Resource Center.

      Resources:
  • Artist Right Society
  • Crash Course in Copyright
  • Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections.
  • CONFU Guidelines for Digital Image Archives
  • CONFU Guidelines for Distance Learning
  • CONFU Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
  • Fair Use Checklist (Indiana University-Purdue University)