I need your advice in regard to reproducing the reproduced. as well as your interpretation of a statement made by a curator. In 1983, as a compliment from the White House, I received a reproduction of a painting of the First Lady Mrs. Monroe. Attached was the White House curator's letter. It says no reproduction without the painting owner's permission. My question is: Does the curator mean that I cannot reproduce the reproduced? If in this regard, what about thousands and an artist who reproduce Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa are not penalized for copying. Though not related to him, my great aunt was allowed by the director of the Louvre in Paris in 1920s to sit in the grand hall of the said museum to copy -- albeit the different size -- a painting by Francois Boucher (1700s). Students from different schools in the USA would come to the National Gallery of Art (NGA) to copy the masters' paintings and would then exhibit their works -- "so as to show faculty, staff, and the community what they have learned from copying in the NGA. All of them, including my great aunt, did not ask the masters' or the painting owners' permission. They are not be penalized either for copying as long as they sign their own names on their works -- rather than falsely using the masters' names on them (forgery). Does the White House curator, therefore, make a conflict by allowing himself to reproduce the painting and then by not allowing me to scan the reproduced picture of the painting? Regards, Jean