I hope that you will be able to find a place where it can be freely used for research. See the below messages. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frances" To: "Larry/Regina Falcetto" "Donald J. Smith" <dandydon@smith.net> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:05 PM Subject: FW: [COPYRIGHT] church photos | Well looks ours isn't the only historical society that is selfish with it | holdings. | | -----Original Message----- | From: Margaret McCleskey [mailto:mamccleskey@worldnet.att.net] | Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:37 PM | To: COPYRIGHT-L@rootsweb.com | Subject: Re: [COPYRIGHT] church photos | | It has been my experience that once a historical society gets its hands | on something it becomes very selfish with that information. Before I | would "give" them the pictures, I would find a way to be very sure that | I retained the copyright and could, thus, control what happens to them | and any profit derived from the sale of copies. | | Margaret | | Liz Parkinson wrote: | > | > HI List | > | > I am currently photographing MIs of local churches for my website, with full | > permission of vicar/minister etc. They will be on the website as jpegs and | > not so easy to read - I will of ocurse be including transriptions. I | > guess if I took the photos I own the copyright. I would like to give decent | > copies of the photos to the local heritage library for people who search | > there - they have an extensive photoarchive forwhich they charge for copies. | > If I give them copies who will onw the copyright then - is it is till me | > and can I say what they cahrge - I dont want amy money myself from them but | > dont want people charged really large sums of money either - I wanted some | > photos for something and the copyright holder wanted quite a lot of money. | > If money has to change hands I would rather it went to the church concerned | > or the heritage library, | > | > All advice welcomed | > | > Liz P | > | > _________________________________________________________________ | > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com | > | > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== | > To subscribe to CLASSIC-POEMS-L, send a "subscribe" command to | CLASSIC-POEMS-L-request@rootsweb.com | > | > ============================== | > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, | go to: | > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237