> P. J. Alling wrote: > As far as I know if you own the original it's yours to do with as you > will. The original owner owner can no longer claim copyright, as a > practical matter.
>Paul Ewins wrote: >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. Thanks for the replies. I thought that as the contents had gone to such a sale, either there were no heirs to pass rights on to, or the heirs thought them worthless and passed them on with the other stuff for sale. As such, I suppose there would be little chance of anyone complaining. However, I'm not going to use it; having asked the question I feel a little uncomfortable in using it, regardless of entitlement to do so. I have a fairly similar selection of pictures which I took and one can be made from them, if so wished. There were two worth keeping, which I have done, the others have been binned. 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.
