On 1/21/2015 2:44 PM, Malcolm Smith 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
In this case, I have FAMILY photos - some of them. The stuff my father
gave away was a byproduct of her commercial work. It likely has little
value other than documenting life in Durham, NC during the early 20th
Century.
Again, I don't really care that he has them. It was certainly my
father's right to give them away at the time, and I was only 9 years old
when she died. I don't think it would have ever occurred to my father
that I might have someday have an interest.
By now those photos are in some historic association collection and
that's fine with me. It just bothers me a bit that no one will ever know
that it was my grandmother's work.
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