On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Fergal Daly <fergald@gmail.com> wrote:
So they are publishing items that are out of copyright but still
asserting some nebulous form of ownership of these items. Is it
possible for me to look at something in their online collection
without implicitly agreeing to this "license"?

Not that I can see.

They got back to me on twitter btw saying:  'For now, terms are http://www.nli.ie/en/rights-reproductions.aspx . We're working on updated licensing policy for digital content, to be in place by end 2014'


--j.