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If you wish to donate an image to this site, please email the author at the address at the bottom of this page a high quality 72 dpi scan that may fit well with this study of Leonardo appropriations. Images may be given on the condition that they were at one time or another visible on the web. Another condition of donation has been that image copyrights revert back to the original owners. The third condition for the acceptance of these gifts has been that the site’s images exist at the UK and US locations specifically according to UK fair dealing and US fair use copyright guidelines, as stated further below. Finally, images have been given on condition that the provenance of each donation remains anonymous.

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UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
Parts 29 and 30 (chapter III), Acts Permitted in relation to Copyright Works:

“29 Research and private study:

(1) Fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work for the purposes of research or private study does not infringe any copyright in the work or, in the case of a published edition, in the typographical arrangement.

(2) Fair dealing with the typographical arrangement of a published edition for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1) does not infringe any copyright in the arrangement.

(3) Copying by a person other than the researcher or student himself is not fair dealing if— (a) in the case of a librarian, or a person acting on behalf of a librarian, he does anything which regulations under section 40 would not permit to be done under section 38 or 39 (articles or parts of published works: restriction on multiple copies of same material), or (b) in any other case, the person doing the copying knows or has reason to believe that it will result in copies of substantially the same material being provided to more than one person at substantially the same time and for substantially the same purpose.

[(4) It is not fair dealing— (a) to convert a computer program expressed in a low level language into a version expressed in a higher level language, or (b) incidentally in the course of so converting the program, to copy it, (these acts being permitted if done in accordance with section 50B (decompilation)).]

30 Criticism, review and news reporting:

(1) Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of criticism or review, of that or another work or of a performance of a work, does not infringe any copyright in the work provided that it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.

(2) Fair dealing with a work (other than a photograph) for the purpose of reporting current events does not infringe any copyright in the work provided that (subject to subsection (3)) it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.

(3) No acknowledgement is required in connection with the reporting of current events by means of a sound recording, film, broadcast or cable programme.”

US Copyright Act, section 107: Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair Use:

“Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phono-records or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include - 1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for non-profit educational purposes; 2. the nature of the copyrighted work; 3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and 4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.”

Author: mattmail.wolf.ox.ac.uk