gyakoobian Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 I would like to know if the pictures of the Genocide, taken by Armin Wegner and John Elder are in the public domain. Can anyone print them free of charge ? Are the copyrighted and permission is needed to print them? Please I need to KNOW and NOT how YOU THINK it is. Thanks in advance for all your answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 I would like to know if the pictures of the Genocide, taken by Armin Wegner and John Elder are in the public domain. Can anyone print them free of charge ? Are the copyrighted and permission is needed to print them? Please I need to KNOW and NOT how YOU THINK it is. Thanks in advance for all your answers. I know that for Armin Wegner, there was supposedly a copyright, but I garanty you that no one cares if you use them, trust me on that. John Elder pictures... don't know. Why don't you write ANI and ask them, if ever you get an answer. What I can tell you is to use them as if there was no copyright, no one will sue you for it, it has already been done, where they have used the pictures, than a supposed copyright infrigement about Wegner pictures was claimed, but nothing has been done as much as I am aware of. If you are concerned about it, you can still have a writen consent, there isn't money to make over those pictures so there is no reason for them(the holders) to refuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairi Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 They're long gone dead. Who the hell is ANI to copyright those pictures???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 They're long gone dead. Who the hell is ANI to copyright those pictures???? No one, just that they use them for years... they would be the first to know how well those pictures were copyrighted. BTW Nairi, it is not because someone is dead that it means things are nit copyrighted anymore. Decendents of the person will hold the copyright, I think like 50-75 years after the person dead or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gurgen Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Or someone can buy the copyright, like Michael Jackson bought the right to the Beatles' songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 Under normal circumstances photographs are under copyright for 70 years after the death of the photographer. However, I think that a digital image is, in Europe, only in copyright for 50 years after its publication, which seems very unfair on photographers (who, for that reason, should NEVER release high definition digital scans of their works!). A legitimate organisation should not use in-copyright pictures without permission even if the chances of being sued are nil. If you alter an out-of-copyright photo then the resulting image may create a new copyright image that is held by you. But just scanning a picture will not be enough for that, you need to have changed it in an obvious way - so ANI's claim to copyright is not valid. Altering or even just scanning an in-copyright image is illegal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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