At 07:10 PM 6/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Alan Zinn <azinn@netbox.com> writes: > >> Colleagues, >> >> Can found-photos be protected by copyright? I collect flea-market photos of >> old pictures and may want to own new copyrights. > >No. > >Once it's entered the public domain, it can't be copyrighted again. >If it's *not* in the public domain, then somebody *already* owns the >copyright. >-- >David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test > John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net > Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ > New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info David, The pictures I have in mind are late 19th-early 20th c. portraits and family pics. Any copyright would have expired and modern copyright rules would not apply, it seems to me. I'd like to have some control over their use if possible. I'd like to show them to PF folks without expecting them to be sucked into WWW public domain. If I arted or somehow altered them they would be copyrightable. Also I'm just curious about the matter in general. For example it seems a private or museum collection should have some protection. AZ Maker of Lookaround panoramic camera. http://www.panoramacamera.us or keyword.com lookaround
