Re: copyright of photoreproduced text
- From: rodhay@[redacted]
- Subject: Re: copyright of photoreproduced text
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:38:29 -0400 (EDT)
Likely the photographer was a company employee. In this case the law would be
slightly different. The copyright would run for 70 years from the date of
publication. Providing of course that copyright could be established.
Rod Hay
Quoting Lars Aronsson <lars@[redacted]
> Almost a month ago, somebody wrote on this list:
> >>> Does anybody know the extent to which a photoreproduction
> > of an uncopyrighted text can be copyrighted?
> >
> > It's protected to the full, as a photo is a new artistical work.
> >Microfilms of books and newspapers, for example, are so protected,
>
> When one institution called me and asked me to remove some
> reproductions that I had on my website, I acted surprised that they
> would claim copyright to a reproduction photo, which was non-creative
> in my mind. They said it was a photo, and thus covered by copyright.
> I then asked for the name of the photographer, so I should be able to
> monitor his or her death year and wait 70 more years to be able to
> publish the photos again. The person who called me couldn't find that
> name, and they never called me again. :-)
>
> I've never been contacted by disappointed authors, artists or
> photographers, only by really big institutions and associations.
>
>
> --
> Lars Aronsson (lars@[redacted]
> Aronsson Datateknik
> Teknikringen 1e, SE-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
> tel +46-70-7891609
> http://aronsson.se
>
> [Moderator: Note that earlier posts in this thread had some discussion
> on the differences in different countries' laws concerning whether
> reproduction photos could be copyrighted at all. - JMO]