National Library of Ireland publication permissions

[Mol_PMB]

As you may know, I'm currently preparing a talk on the AEC Railcars to present to the IRRS Manchester Branch, and perhaps later to the Dublin Branch.

I'm using almost 100 old photos from various sources, and I'm very grateful to the IRRS archives team, plus our own forum members such as Ernie and Jonathan Allen for permission to use their images for this specific purpose, along with others including Roger Joanes who have all happily given their permission.

I was also hoping to use 4 or 5 images from the O'Dea collection held by the National Library of Ireland. As well as having to pay for these images (tens of euros per image), their terms require that I provide a copy of 'the entire work', i.e. my presentation, rights-free, to the NLI. Most of the copyright of the images in my presentation belongs to other people and organisations including those mentioned above. So they're not mine to give away. Also, why should I give away my work for free when they are charging me to use theirs? This seems an unfair and disproportionate requirement, and I cannot comply with it.

My present approach is to delete the NLI images from my presentation and try to substitute alternatives, but there will be some topics that can not be so well described without them. 

I was wondering if anyone else (perhaps including the authors amongst us) had found a way through this minefield?

Many thanks,

Mol