tickets fixed

I have now booked and paid the bus tickets for my trip to Norway: I will leave at 3.30 on Sunday morning and go home from Oslo at 21.45 (I so hope I will be back in Oslo by then) which means that I will be in Göteborg again at 01.50.
I think I will need all the drugs I can get, because my body does not like sitting for long times and I can't sleep while traveling.

I haven't listened to this in a long time

partly due to all my albums being on vinyl, partly beacuse I have changed musical taste since my teens, but right now I'm listening to Iron Maiden and I just want to state that "The Trooper" is still awesome!

Copyright troubles

I'm working on my article for NESAT and one thing I need is the permission to print copyrighted material. Well, since copyright usually ends 75 years after the death of the creator (100 in some countries) and the painters concerned in this case have been dead for at least 700 years i can't see that I need a permission from anywhere. But I don't think the british publishers share this view. The problem is that one of the institutions who has important images won't answer their e-mail so now I don't know what to do. The images are really important to the article and it is stupid that an institution should be able to stand in the way of research (in this case it's the Pierpont Morgan library). It's not like it's a commercial publication.
But I know that there has been some court rulings about this, the copyright claims of museums vs the original meaning of the copyright law and I remember reading about this in articles of the internet.
And this is where I need your help: any links?