> Todd Stearns wrote: > > >I'm definitely not asking anyone to violate any rules, > ethical or legal. I > >just wanted a better understanding of the situation and how > it works. Thanks > >for the clarification. > > > > AFAIK, the copyright for a photograph belongs to the photographer or his > estate if he/she has died. I do not know if showing selected views on > the list or a web site constitutes fair use or not. But I think > probably not. Good guess. It is publication without permission, unless of course, permission has been granted. Actually selling a collection of prints without the > owners permission is not allowed but in many cases the seller does not > know and the seller cannot find the photographer's name and location. Now, hold on there. If you have a collection of prints, you collected them for your own personal use, right? You can sell that collection to someone else, as long as they intend to use if for THEIR personal use. That's not a problem. > The copyright expires after a number of years, details on > many web sites. Yes, but thanks to Mickey Mouse . . ..er . . . .Disney, it's a Very Long Time. It's something like the life of the author (creator, I think it the word used) plus 30?? years. The time has been extended several times through the lobbying of Disney and some other movie makers who see their ability to control the images of Mickey, Donald, Snow White, Dopey and all the rest of those characters go down the drain. Along with the money involved. > Google for it or join and ask on a railroad photography or > photography group for details. Good approach. > I do not who has the copyright, if a photographer dies and > his executor or estate sells the negatives. The estate, the heirs, have the copyrights, and hold them until the either sell them or the time period runs out. BTW, somebody will be wondering about Bob's Photo, who we've most all seen at train shows (and enriched mightily, at least I have. I both love and hate to see him at shows.) and all the photos he's got. He is quite careful to not only buy the negatives for the prints he sells but also to buy the RIGHTS to them. I'm sure that there are some he is winging it on, but the general case is that he owns the negatives and the rights. SGL > > bob gillis The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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