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Liz Ackert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>This request for information is being cross-posted to Museum-L and
>Libref-L. Please forward it to colleagues who may be able to assist us.
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>The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library has extensive holdings of
>photographic images (in excess of 200,000). My colleagues in Visual
>Resources wish to know if other museums and/or libraries copyright
>individual photographic images in their collections. This question relates
>especially to those images which are requested for use in periodical and
>book publications.
>If your institution does copyright photographic images, it would be useful
>for us to know when the application for copyright is usually initiated. Is
>it at the time a contract is drawn up as part of a rights and reproductions
>transaction? Or are selected images copyrighted in anticipation of their
>use by other publishers? And if so, how are such decisions made.
>Please respond privately and I will summarize responses to the list. Many
>thanks in advance for your consideration and assistance.
>Liz Ackert
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> Liz Ackert ([log in to unmask])
> Public Services Librarian
> Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library
> P.O. Box 1776 / 415 North Boundary Street
> Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
> Phone (804) 220-7419 Fax (804) 221-8902
I need some help here. How can a Museum pretend to have any copyrights
to photos that were taken by other people unless they have benn
assigned to the museum?
I always thought that copyrights remain with the artist, the creator,
unless she/he assigned the rights to any other entity. I also thought
that the rights remain with her/his heirs or estate for the fifty
years following the artist/creator' death.
Is there any legal expert we can clarify the matter.
Thank you.
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