Image Rights
The Erik Brunetti Foundation for the Arts administers requests to reproduce images of works and archival materials under its stewardship.
Permission may be considered for scholarly publications, exhibition catalogues, museum interpretation, educational projects, documentary films, journalism, broadcasting, digital media, and other approved uses. Possession of an image, access to archival material, or prior publication of an image does not establish permission for further use. Written authorization must be obtained before an image is reproduced, distributed, altered, displayed publicly, or used in a new context.
Rights Requests
Requests should include:
The applicant’s name, organization, and contact information
The work or archival material requested
The proposed use and its scholarly, editorial, educational, or commercial context
The publication, exhibition, film, program, or website title
The author, editor, publisher, producer, or sponsoring institution
Format, language, territory, print run, duration, and distribution
Requested image size and resolution
Anticipated publication or release date
Proposed caption and credit line
Any proposed cover, promotional, advertising, merchandising, or social-media use
A new request is required when the medium, edition, language, territory, duration, publisher, or purpose changes. Permission for interior editorial use does not automatically include covers, promotion, advertising, merchandise, or other commercial applications.
Copyright & Other Rights
Ownership of a physical object is distinct from ownership of copyright and other intellectual-property rights. The Foundation may control the object, the archival file, the photograph, the copyright, or only some of these interests.
Where third-party rights are involved, applicants are responsible for obtaining permission from the relevant artist, photographer, author, publisher, estate, lender, or other rights holder. The Foundation’s approval applies only to rights under its control. Supplying an image does not constitute a warranty that every necessary copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, moral, contractual, or other permission has been secured.
Images may not be materially cropped, recolored, reversed, overprinted, animated, retouched, composited, or otherwise altered without prior written approval. Minor cropping required by layout should be disclosed in the request.
Archival & Documentary Materials
Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, legal records, production materials, and other archival documents may contain personal, confidential, copyrighted, or legally sensitive information. Access to such materials does not create a right to publish them.
The Foundation may decline reproduction, require redaction, restrict contextual use, or permit quotation without authorizing reproduction of the original document. Decisions consider privacy, copyright, documentary integrity, ethical context, and the potential for misleading or fragmentary presentation.
Fees & Copies
Licensing, research, preparation, scanning, photography, file-delivery, and administrative fees may apply. Fees are determined according to the proposed use, the materials requested, the required preparation, and whether the project is scholarly, nonprofit, educational, editorial, promotional, or commercial.
Reduced or waived licensing fees may be considered for qualifying nonprofit, academic, museum, and scholarly uses. Technical preparation, digitization, or new photography costs may still apply.
The Foundation may require one or more complimentary copies of a completed publication, catalogue, film, or other output for its Archive and bibliographic record.
Captions & Credits
Approved images must be accompanied by the complete caption and credit line supplied by the Foundation. Credit information may include:
Artist
Title
Date
Medium and dimensions
Collection or lender
Copyright notice
Photographer
Image source
Required institutional acknowledgment
Captions may not be shortened in a manner that creates inaccurate attribution, ownership, chronology, or provenance. The Foundation may request proposed text concerning the reproduced material for factual review. Factual review does not constitute editorial endorsement of the publication as a whole.
Website Images
Images appearing on the Foundation’s website are provided for viewing and reference. They should not be treated as publication-ready files or as authorization for reproduction.
For publication-quality images, documentary footage, archival reproductions, or permissions, applicants should submit a formal request before production deadlines. Authorization is not retroactive, and the Foundation cannot guarantee approval or delivery within an applicant’s schedule.
Image-rights & reproduction inquiries:
archive@erikbrunettifoundation.org