1. The copyright of all AAT photographs is owned by the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, however, the copyright of some UK Schmidt (UKS 1-24) photographs is jointly owned by the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.(ROE). More information on copyright and credit lines is available here.
2. All the images on these pages are managed on behalf of the AAO by David Malin Images (DMI). Permission to publish any of the photographs may be obtained from DMI. We are able to supply publishers and other commercial users with all images as digital files for downloading by anonymous ftp or on CD-ROM. The files are of very high resolution and available in a variety of sizes up to ~50 x 60cm, 300ppi or equivalent (~100Mb .TIF). All photographs are supplied without burned-in credit lines.
3. For most commercial publications a reproduction fee is required. This varies depending on the intended use, but is typically much lower than general commercial rates. Please let us have details of your intended publication (book, magazine, TV, movie, CD etc., and for print, size-on-page, expected print run, rights required etc.) so we can quote.
4. We appreciate a copy of any publication which uses 5 or more of our pictures and/or a cover picture.
5. Special rates are available for non-profit educational uses. We reserve the right to vary the quoted rates depending on the intended use of the pictures. Use of the images on the WWW is free but is subject to special conditions.
6. Where the high resolution image files are supplied digitally we ask that you supply a name and street address and agree to the following:
The images supplied are copyright as defined in the the World Intellectual Property Organisation Copyright Treaty (Geneva - December 2-20, 1996). See www.wipo.org/copyright/en/index.html for summary and links to full text.
The copyright images have been supplied as digital files by ftp download or on CD-ROM. They must only be used in the context agreed in writing between the person or entity (named in the document) and the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) or its exclusive agent, David Malin Images (DMI). They are supplied on the understanding that they will be used once only. Other uses are possible (and encouraged) but must be negotiated separately. These images and their derivatives cannot be copied, published or redistributed in any form (including on the Internet) without AAO or DMI permission.
The images supplied or derivatives of them are not to be transferred to third parties in any form unless in the course of the agreed project or work, which may be a single edition of a book, magazine, movie, video, exhibition, print etc. If they are so distributed as agreed, it is the responsibility of the primary recipient (identified in the document) to make these conditions known to the third parties. Any action for copyright infringement will assume the primary recipient is aware of this obligation and has accepted it.
For more information, please contact David Malin Images