Per their blog, the Indianapolis Museum of Art will be enforcing its new shooting policy starting Tuesday March 1st. What’s changed? If you’re shooting for your personal use (including Flickr and Facebook, but not commercial stuff like making money), not much. There’ll be some pieces you can’t photograph, but they’ll be clearly marked. If you’re a commercial photographer, however, you’ll now need a permit for all IMA locations, no exceptions. Partly this is to reduce business and schedule conflicts as people fight over shooting there, partly it’s to help with copyrights. Among other things, they remind you that famous Robert Indiana “LOVE” sculpture out front is art, and under copyright at that. They have to pay to include it in images, and by the law so do you. Also, they don’t want you climbing about on it, which should be more common sense than should need a policy, but given every tourist photo I’ve ever seen of it, apparently not.

For all you commercial (wedding, portrait, etc) shooters, their fee schedule appears to be quite reasonable, and $50 will cover you for a day, or you can buy a year’s pass for all of $250.

For more information on the policies and how to get a permit, see the links below.