Copyright and Your use of the British Library Website
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Email: permissions@bl.uk
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Images on Explore the British Library
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In the event of a dispute, the image will be removed from the Syndetic Solutions service while it is investigated.
Your use of the British Library Website
Other than expressly permitted by the terms and conditions specific to individual services, you may not without the prior written consent of the British Library:
- systematically extract and/or re-utilise the content of the Site, including but not limited to the utilisation of any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools to extract (whether once or many times) for re-utilisation of any substantial parts of this the Site
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