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[Fred W. Schneider III]

I do not know the man.  He might have gotten it from a secondary source.  It
was, to the best of my memory, never published.  Or he may have bought the
print at a sale ... I did unload some extra material at some railfan shows a
few years ago, and I think there might have been a 5x7 print in the box of
extras on the table.  Of course, everything was credited that was sold.
There is one other possibility ... I load a group of negatives to Bob Brown
a number of years ago; he printed and returned them.  After his death, his
widow sold off a lot of material.  She even sold some PTM property not
knowing any better.

Dave was very nice about it.  My complaint isn't with him.  I really think
he is the victim.  I suggested he draft a contract that his exhibitors
should sign, in which they testify that they either took the picture, or
have purchased legal rights to its use, and that they will stand the expense
of any litigation that results from the use of a picture for which they have
no rights.  I suspect that would stop the problem rapidly, except for a few
very few individuals who admit they have a belief that the law is bad.

Great day here.  Little cooler than it was.  (Eighty, though, is still
horrible compared to the breeze off the Pacific in the Western Addition.) It
has been in the high 80s with humidity almost off the chart.  Had five
inches of rain in two four hours Sunday night ... two pumps in the basement
were just keeping up ... it rose 2 inches over the floor when the power went
off and didn't get back down until 2 AM.

Jim Holland wrote:

> Greetings!
>
>         How did Freud get a copy of your print?
>
> Fred W. Schneider III wrote:
>
> >  Photo #86 was taken on 6th St and Penn in June 1959 by Fred W.
> > Schneider, III and is used without permission.
>
> > I would like your assurance that photo #86 will be deleted immediately
> > because, again, you have taken the liberty to publish my work without
> > first obtaining permission.
>
> James B. Holland
>
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