Unfortunately no. You own the slides, but the copyright still belongs to whoever shot it (or their heirs). Practically speaking, however, the chances of you (actually your friend) facing a copyright action would be so small that most people wouldn't be worried.
Paul Ewins Melbourne, Australia On 20/12/2011, at 9:43 PM, Malcolm Smith wrote: > Hello folks, > > Greetings of the season. Not been posting but reading of late only; only > have a K-7 and taking photos of interest really only to locals. I hope to > add a K-5 next year, it has been very odd with just the one camera body. > > Amongst my other hobbies, I tend to acquire the odd addition from local > auctions. This often proves to be a mixed blessing as some lots include a > lot of unwanted stuff. Anyway, in a recent acquisition, I had to take a > small piece of furniture (dropped off at a charity shop) but inside I found > a handful of colour slides. I assume this whole lot was from an estate sale. > > Most of these were the rather poor blurry kind & a few of family unknown, > but there were a couple that were really good. A friend is interested in > using one on a webpage - it shows a forest landscape. > > My question is: Having bought these, albeit by accident of inclusion in a > lot, can I use them in any way I like? I'm aware if you buy a house and the > garage/loft/house has furniture etc still left it becomes yours, can I use > my purchase - not to pass off as my own - but to use as described? > > Malcolm > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
