Copyright

The copyright of all images deposited in the Virtual Microscopy Database (VMD) will remain with the original copyright owner. Before depositing any image files in the VMD, please make sure that you or your institution owns the copyright for these images or that you have proper permission from the copyright owner to deposit the image(s) in the VMD. The American Association of Anatomists, the VMD and the VMD managers hold no responsibility that the copyright belongs to the donor of the images or that proper consent has been obtained from the image’s copyright owner. If you believe that any image(s) in the VMD do not have the copyright owner’s consent, please contact the VMD managers.

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All images in the VMD are made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Creative Commons License (CC) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). By downloading or copying any of the VMD images, the user agrees to the restrictions as defined by the above CC license. All images downloaded from the VMD must be given proper credit to the image’s copyright holder and indicate if changes were made to the image(s). Without obtaining permission from the images’ copyright owner these images may NOT be used for any commercial purposes (including, but not limited to books for sale, subscription websites, product promotions and others). Please note that the VMD is not the copyright owner of any of the images. If you share downloaded or copied images (either modified or in its original form) with a third party, the same CC license applies to the recipient of the shared material.