On 4/17/07 3:46 AM, Jean Nathan wrote:
The V & A requires permission to reproduce any postcards you buy from them, so unless they already have permission from a copyright owner, I presume they own the copyright on any paintings they have bought or had donated to them.
You can own copyright on a postcard without owning copyright on the painting it was made from. Including open-domain material does not make a work uncopyrightable. Nor does including open-domain work in a copyrighted work give you any claim over the open-domain work -- though you *are* entitled to insist that people find an open-domain copy and do their own cleaning up, arranging, etc. In addition, anyone can make agreeing not to copy a thing a condition of sale. Such agreements usually require a signature, but one often sees "by [opening this package/clicking on this link . . . ] you agree to . . . . " -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
