08/02/2017 9:33 pm
I have to laugh when I see the copyright warning on Cincinnati-Hamilton County Library and Murphy Library sites. When I was just a teenager I worked two jobs to get money to buy photos from Capt. Fred Way. I think they were a dollar each for 5x7's. Over the years I purchased over 800 photos. Never thought anything of it until the digital world appeared. Then suddenly there on both sites were my Way photos with the stern warning that they were protected by copyright. My thought to both institutions was "stuff it". I also had the brilliant idea, when I could drive, to run ads in local papers, Augusta.Maysville, Vanceburg,Manchester, Portsmouth etc. "Don't throw out river related items in the trash, I will gladly pick them up, sorry no money to buy". Boy I got lucky, lots of photos that later showed up in the Ralph Dupae findings. Again Murphy said copyright protected but I had them first, so there!!
09/02/2017 12:39 am
Right on!
Just think how many of us have some pix there through Ralph...copyrighted indeed!
11/02/2017 5:59 pm
Howdy, all - for what it's worth, I am among those still reading .org and grateful indeed for its presence. I post little - and never have - because I don't have the actual steamboating experience, but enjoy mightily the stories of those that do. Be assured that you may see few - or even no - responses to your posts, but they are appreciated by others.
The notion of replicating the content of .org in some sort of printed volume is a worthy one. I imagine there is some very quick and clever way to do so, but 'twould take one skilled in the digital arts to know how.
Best regards to all. Long live steamboats.org!
11/02/2017 7:30 pm
Jim,
I agree: really understanding copyrights is not easy at all. (and we're only talking about US copyrights here; if you go internationally, it's even much more complicated).
One thing is very clear, though: Owning a picture, even if it's an "original", does NOT automatically mean you're holding any copyrights - no matter whether you've bought the picture, received it as a present from the photographer himself, found it in the trash or what ever else.
Copyright holder is the creator, i.e. the photographer or his ancestors. Only these persons can legally grant the right to use, publish or distribute the work. (other rules apply for work for hire, but basically it's very similar anyway).
When talking about Delta Queen pictures, i.e. from later than 1923, it's very likely they're copyright protected in some way. How, whether and why is very complicated and in many cases you won't even be able to figure out at all whether a picture is protected at all or who might actually legally hold copyrights - for details see Wikipedia, capter "Duration of copyright" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States
That's why for steamboats.org it is almost impossible to deal with this issue and to make sure that copyrights are clearly figured out for every single pictures that might be posted on this website ... Sad, but true ...
Franz
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