> -----Original Message----- > From: Patricia Kilborn [mailto:search@together.net] > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:32 AM > To: QC-ETANGLO-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] To Historical Societies > > > I would like to make Historical Societies aware of a problem that the > Memphremago Historical Society of Newport, Vermont has recently > come across. There is a Man from the state of Massachusetts that has > been either borrowing from libraries or purchasing books that contain > Pictorial Histories and he is scanning the pictures from these books > and putting the pictures on Stationery and Post Cards etc. > and selling them > to Gift Shops for his own profit. > Copyright infringement is the best (only?) recourse. That requires persuading the copyright owner to take action. If its really old material (over 60 years I believe) then copyright lapses and nothing can be done. [NOT A LAWYER'S OPINION - just my job sometimes brings me in contact with these kinds of problems.]