[PRCo] Re: Question about slides

[Fred Schneider]

Certainly with the older stuff (and I have not read the new law carefully), once you put something out there without protecting it, you lost it.  Once in the public domain ... only once.   All someone has to do is prove that they got a print without your name on it without a copyright symbol ... you have lost it.   


On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Jim Keener wrote:

> I didn't intend to copyright them, I just wanted to share my collection,
> put it online, maybe with a map of where each one was taken and having
> it so the image would be like google maps where you can zoom in on a
> section of the image w/o having to load the full res image (or the full
> image if you so choose:)).  I was just curious about the issues
> surrounding that.
> 
> I take it older slides would have had their copyright expire then, and I
> don't have to worry too much about it?
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 12/10/10 2:42 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:
>> There was also a copyright law change about 1970.   Essentially that law meant that if you failed to copyright your material and put it in the public domain, you lost it.   So if we're talking about images of private streetcar companies, unless the photographer actually took the time to protect his or her work, there isn't much he can do.   And you can't copyright it because you didn't take it.   
>> If you copyright a book, for example, the verbage in the law addresses copyrightable material.   What is copyrightable?   Your photographs?   Yes.   Your art?   yes.   Your prose?   yes.   Someone else's photographs that were previously copyrighted?   no.   Basic information?   no.    So a roster is basic information, it cannot be copy protected.  
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 10, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>> 
>>> According to the Library of Congress, basic copyrights are as follows:
>>> Copyrighted material prior to the year 2000: Copyright lasts 21 years from
>>> original date of copyright or renewal of copyright.
>>> 
>>> Copyrighted material beginning in the year 2000: Copyright last the life of
>>> the creator (writer, photographer, etc) PLUS 75 years.
>>> 
>>> See the Library of Congress website for any other changes, exceptions, etc.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 14:03, Jim Keener <jimktrains at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> If I buy a slide, do I then have the right to, say, scan it and put it
>>>> up online, or are those rights still owned by the original photographer?
>>>> 
>>>> Jim
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Herb Brannon
>>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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