Malcolm, you are not alone in finding careless disposal of historical family treasures reprehensible. I would dearly love to have the portraits and photo albums that were destroyed by a fire in an out building and another set during a basement flooding. Even a poorly composed and captured photograph is precious when the subject is a family member who passed before you were born or now deceased loved one who was camera shy.
I may feel a bit strongly about this; genealogy is as much of an obsession as photography. Yonnie On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Malcolm Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > John wrote: > >> Still, if these are old photos that have been in the family for years & >> years, I don't think you're going to have any real problem with someone >> suing you for infringement. >> >> It got me thinking about some family photos I'm currently digitizing >> for myself & my three sibs, along with some other photos ... >> >> My grandmother had a photography studio in Durham, NC from 1900 to >> approximately 1930. I have some of her old photos & a few of her >> negatives. >> >> I'm pretty sure my father gave away many of her negatives to a local >> photographer in Durham after she passed away in 1959. I have seen >> several of her photos published as historic images of Durham with that >> photographer taking credit for them. >> >> At this late date I don't really care if he keeps the negatives, or >> that he profits from publishing them, but it does piss me off that he's >> taking credit as the author of her work. > > All noted. This is a recurring thing with me finding out about how people > view family photographs. I think we can assume that everyone here has an > interest in them, keeping them and preserving them for future generations. > Yet so many don't. One of my friends inherited quite a large collection of > pictures from family, and my jaw dropped when he told me that 'the past is > the past' and he had binned them. Another had let his family photos go with > a house clearance company. Is it just me that finds that bizarre at the > least? > > It's certainly infuriating that someone has passed off the work as his own > in your case, but at least they have survived. > > 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.
