In a message dated 3/11/2006 12:53:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, bvelke@whollygenes.com writes: <<It may be questionable to you - but, then, you haven't seen their original image which they claim to have altered to produce the final product. So you have no foundation from which to question the level of creativity that went into it or their resulting claim of copyright.>> Bob- With a census image I'm quite certain they didn't ALTER the original film--they may well have enhanced it but not ALTERED it. If they did, indeed, alter it--then there wouldn't be much point in using their census images as being original evidence. <<You're welcome to challenge them in court or to defend yourself when they take you there <g> but if they can demonstrate that the version that they published bears any creative difference from their original image slavishly copied from the public domain, then you'll lose.>> Well, I wouldn't be testing it in court but not for the reason you give...I'd not be violating the terms of a licensing agreement--but then that has nothing to do with copyright. Joan