On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote: >> 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's also the possibility that whoever took them, would like them back, and would have no idea that they even exist without you posting them someplace that someone could see. There are whole websites of found photographs with, so far as I know, no complaints. > > There were two worth keeping, which I have done, the others have been > binned. > > Malcolm > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
