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Re: Copyright indemnification



Title: ARCHIVES Digest - 13 Jan 2002 to 14 Jan 2002 (#2002-15)
You might want to look at the model license agreement developed by a group of Arizona archivists and museum folk at http://www.hanksville.org/sand/contacts/lic.intro.html
 
The form includes language that requires anyone who reproduces materials obtained from the archives to hold the archives harmless and to indemnify the archives for any and all expenses related to the use of the image.
 
While contractually binding, such that an individual would have to reimburse the archives if the archives is sued, the problem is that the individual may go bankrupt--leaving the archives to pay the damages.  It's better than nothing.
 
       
Richard Pearce-Moses
 rpm9@mindspring.com