Given the way that American's in the past have treated British copyright:
In Chicago, I was assured by an enterprising pirate now retired, that
the sales throughout the United States had exceeded a million; and
although, in consequence of its having been published before the
Copyright Convention, this has brought me no material advantage, the
fame and popularity it has won for me among the American public is an
asset not to be despised. [Jerome, Jerome. "Author's Advertisment" in
Three Men in a Boat]
I think it's fair for an enterprising British attendee to return the
favour, since the image is not protected over there (or in Canada for that
matter).
Edward Corrado wrote:
I have no idea of the legal status of the photo, I believe the length of
time for copyright in the USA is 75 years (unless your Disney, then it
is for ever), thus it still may be covered on this side of the pond. I
think we need to clarify this before printing up a bunch of shirts
with this photo.
Edward - who doubts anyone will be chasing after code4lib but still, we
should do things "the right way"
Rob Styles said the following on 1/29/2007 4:54 AM:
The photo is an original WWII photo from 1944, it's outside of the 50
years covered by copyright here in the UK in is in use by several
different organisations. I believe we don't need any clearance.
rob
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Roy Tennant Sent: 26 January 2007 21:10 To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Polls open for Code4Lib 2007 T-Shirt design
I hate to be the one to raise this, but it seems like I must since
the design is leading in the polls, but do we have (or can we
obtain) the right to reproduce that photo? Roy
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