What about pictures not in the public domain and with no one owning the copyright? i.e. I inherited slides from various family members that were never published and were made before the current copyright law went into effect. In a message dated 6/13/02 7:13:52 PM EST, dd-b@dd-b.net writes: > 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.