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RE: (erielack) Legalities and ethics of the use of photos

Schuyler et al,

    I think it's funny abuot how old RR pix get in a collection and because 
the owner can't find the photographer he doesn't DO anything with them. It's 
a variant of the 'squirrel syndrome. where u have these fotos in ur closet 
but u cant do anything because someone, somewhere might sue you. I'm not 
makiing excuses for the lady who tried to hijack the N&W fotos taken by 
...forget the name.
    I have a great collection of MLW pix taken in the 50s, 60s & earlier but 
can't do much with them acct folks are afraid of getting sued. I found them 
in a hobbyshop iin a back room in a box with cobwebs over them. I saw the 
top foto was a steam engine ready to go on a turntable. I bought them from 
the shop owner. He told me his mom bought them in Montana where she was 
looking for indian stuff back in the 70s.
      Along these lines, awhile back, the Colorado Railroad Museum published 
an annual which was about the Santa-Fe in the intermountain west. One of the 
big features was a pictorial essay by a fellow who'd purchased a bunch of 
negatives in a junk store. Most of them appeared to be taken by an agent in 
the 1940-42 perion & WHAT PICTURES. The Scout pulled by a 4-8-4 making the 
station stop. Early EMDs on freights with the dynamometer car in the 
consist. The Grand Canyon Limited arriving at Grand Canyon (for fun, I went 
to the exact spot where the old photo'd been taken and snapped the train 
arriving behind the ALCO engines of the GCRR. The switches were the same at 
the entrance to the yard in Grand Canyon so I could mark the spot.).
      I imagine there's DL&W & EL stuff like this around too & I feel we 
should not have it lost because of a dog-in-the-manger attitude.  I mean 
nobody's going to get rich off a bunch of RR pix.

Regards to all & a Happy New Year.

Walt Smith


>From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
>Reply-To: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
>To: "'Todd Stearns'" <toddsyr_@_twcny.rr.com>, <erielack@lists.elhts.org>
>Subject: (erielack) Legalities and ethics of the use of photos
>Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:52:31 -0500
>
>
>.
> >
> > So if I buy a photo reprint from someone, I don't have the
> > right to do with
> > it as I wish? Just trying to get a clear picture on this, no
> > pun intended.
> >
> > Todd K. Stearns
>
>
>For your own personal use, yes, you do.  You can copy it and enlarge it and 
>mark it up and even burn
>it.
>
>You don't have an intrinsic right to copy it and sell it, since that's 
>competition with the person
>you bought your copy from.  Especially if the seller is the one who took 
>the picture.  And in the
>case of someone like Bill Caloroso, who has invested money to buy 
>collections, he a) may have bought
>the reproduction rights to those photos, and b) he has a reasonable right 
>to expect to recoup his
>investment.  In the first case, it's a legal issue, in the second, while it 
>MIGHT be legal, it
>definitely is an ethical issue.  One that I, for one, will not violate.
>
>SGL
>
>
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