AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. NO. 440 - Eighth Week in Quarter Registered for Transmission ABroad. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1874. PRICE 1D. ============================================= SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. MR. JOHN LEIGHTON, of the Royal Institution, complains that no one in England has a copyright in his own face, which is at the mercy of any photographer who may seize it. As the result of a recent discussion, it appears that, unless formal stipulations are entered into prior to the sitting, the copyright in negatives is vested in the photographer. MR. LEIGHTON refers to the fact that, since the formation of the Art Copyright Act, there has been an indefinite multiplication of the processes and methods of reproduction, and he gives force to his remarks by the following illustrative statement: - "At the period of the death of MADAME RACHEL, the eminent French tragedienne, A Paris photographer managed to find access to the mortuary chamber, where he posed the body conveniently, and took several negatives. After this he employed an artist to touch her up, opening the eyes - in fact, to animate the corpse. That resulted in a ghastly libel, which stared out horribly in all the print shops, causing the family to proceed against the perpetrator, who was fined and punished, though not until after many had been sold." There is no doubt MR. LEIGHTON has lighted upon a real grievance, though caricature artists would require to look out if the law could pounce upon pictorial offenders in this country as promptly as it does in France.