What I'm still unclear about is if in the past when this service was provided, someone purchased copies of NGMPP manuscripts directly from the Nepalese government at the National Archives (KTM) in Kathmandu, if they were required to sign something or somehow contractual rights on the manuscripts were put in place. Or in the absence of which, only international and Nepalese copyright law restricted use of the manuscripts, in which case manuscripts photographed prior to 1997 would be in the public domain and could be reproduced and published on the internet.