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B-168120 1 (1978-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsfh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20545 F, JUL 11 1978 The onorable Paul Fidlay nouso of Ropmotttivea near sr. flxdly This a15 i% response to your rc-quest -For ianfomtIon rttgar,.ng t, atters raised by !Ir. Charles Coeney, taaia t SFtor, Civil War Ti-.es, The questions rate. by Vtr. Cooney oncern the propriety of the 1hmthgonian :nstituton ana the Mate -lone Vlstoricql Musociation charsins a fee abovn e beyond the actual cost of reproduetim for -hotogrP'hs aOf art work owned by 'rhe Unitee States, mafi o-f the Thnthsonknm exetrctsnn. etditorial control over te use of the prodi¢t~ru', As we advise you oar3. r, ye .ba been watinjg for reports E ro thm or-ganiat-tn whose practicev tre questioned by 4r. Cooney, and we have r'endtly receive such roports frovL the Secretary of the Ofithsonifan Institution and fro. the. bcttt¢e rxtroci-- tor of the WIte flous Viatorleal AmocLAtcon First, it should be vmdo CleAr that th%-e ftfhai- is not a -zea a~qmy. Although financed, In 1srsz ;-*rt by apnropr.itnA funds, it V*S eatsbltshed as S chritALle, Ma--proftt corporation to carry o r- pecftiei trut respoulbilititem of the %-itd :r ates but r. Ainin indepWndent, o the Goernment itmeMf According to %cretary Riplayv the dthsoar. reprodution fee to which r Cooney reTert wa a fee cbar~e for the comnreial--te.,rvenue-produein -Joe of photographs and 'un sidrilar to those eharge4 by other Mertcan etset.s. Boever, the S;nthoonlan a2 -, visas that it has nm discontinued tht tipoaiti 0! ,'th*s fee and its only charge for photogrnphe Is one to cover the cost of prtnting. The Szithsonian, according4 to Se7cretary flpley, does not exercise editorial control over the ume of photograpbs. It does, hmevir, re-ai re Qotrcisl users of its phatographs to obtain SIthnenian p.rmision for that use and to furnish it with two copios. of the pufblcations in uwhict th. phtogrSths are printed for use in its library and divisional files. Thre are two reasons for the praisslou requdrenent. First, the S^,.lth- l0111n wishee to insure that the Vhotosrapis it supplUs ate not mse to tVly that the Rzitbacian endorses any c.*oaerci4 product or enterprise, 00fCurs with the opinions elpreesed in, or eonfir s the accuracy of, -any text used with the photographs, tecond, coma of the photograpls in the

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