Do I need permission from publishers, museums, archaeological or art-historical institutions, etc. to include images in my thesis?
- Copyrighted images
If you wish to use copyrighted images, you will need to request
permission in advance.
However, this is not necessary if these images have been made
available under a licence that permits reuse (usually a CC
licence). Only in that case is it not necessary to request
permission in advance.
You must, however, provide a proper source citation; preferably,
state which CC
licence the image is licensed under.
- Homemade images
There is no single, general answer regarding the use of photographs you have taken of museum objects.
- Museums may have their own rules, and these rules may also
vary from one collection to another.
- Sometimes photography is not permitted at all in a
museum.
- Sometimes photography is permitted, but the photos may only be
used for personal purposes, in which case they cannot be included
in a thesis that will be made publicly availabl