Odd copyright question first.
Some many years ago, my late father was mildly into photography.
A friend of his copied a picture of a mutual acquaintance (no idea who he
was) which dated from the '30s on slide film, sometime in the early '60s.
This friend died about ten years later, and his son wanted to sell on all
the camera equipment, which my father bought.
I inherited my father's camera equipment and was left with his own
photographic collection, and the collection of slides, about 80 or so,
including this one I mention above, he bought with the camera equipment in
the probate sale of his friend. Most of the camera equipment was sadly long
ago sold.
Now I have no commercial intention for any of them, although I might be
tempted to put one or two up on a personal website at a future date - but
who owns the copyright? In particular, the image of a photo taken in the
'30s which was copied in the '60s to slide film - and no doubt I will copy
this again to a digital image sometime in 2015. I have no way of tracking
any of them, none of them may now be alive in any case, and money changed
hands for the slides and equipment. Any ideas? I assume I'm OK to use them.
Secondly, copying old B&W photos.
I have a box of these to do, and some over the years have begun to curl, but
the images are OK. Most of the negs are too far gone or missing. My first
thought was to scan them, but it would be a long job and it's not a great
scanner. I wonder if it would be better to set up a copy stand and use the
camera and tripod to capture each photograph, possibly under a piece of
glass to hold them flat and in position. The bulk of these were taken by my
father and they still have some writing on the back, and really I want to
preserve these digitally. Does that sound a better option?
Malcolm
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