At 05:42 AM 5/1/2006, Richard A. Pence wrote: >I know there recently a long thread recently that may have covered this >issue, but I received a message the other day outlining this situation: > >An album of old photos was given to an individual who used some of them >in a recently published book. The photos were quite old enough to have >been in the public domain for some years. Does putting them in the book >give them a "fresh copyright"? Copyright derives from creation -- not discovery, acquisition, or publication. Once in the public domain, always in the public domain. Pat