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I'm working with some folks at my institution to open up policy on fair use and online digital collections. Our counsel has made it clear that we’ll see more success if we can point to examples from other large digital collections. A lot of surveying of copyright and TOS pages from many online collections has given me a good general idea what collection posters are telling their patrons about fair use, but I need some examples of what administrators are telling the collection posters about what they can and can't claim (esp. in regards to collections open to the world that may contain large numbers of orphan works). It does seem clear that many have decided that a low-resolution digital image of a collection item (even if that item might be in copyright) is ok w/in the spirit of fair use if it's clearly posted for educational purposes. I just need some documentation of that policy. What I’m hoping to find is documentation (internal or otherwise) that basically states, “we think it’s legally ok (for fair use or other reasons) to post online a digitized image of a collection object even if there’s a chance that object is under copyright protection.” If there is any chance you could point me in the direction of such documentation or someone who would know how to locate it I would be much obliged. Derek Merleaux