I have always wondered about those Olin Mills photos that numerious people put on their personal web sites :) obviously IF I was to post one of those, [which I haven't yet] but I sure as heck would crop the picture so as to not show the companies name ... which does indicate their copyright ... Ken - > **** This is a very difficult area of the law; how did you gain the photos? > were such knowingly given or sold to you such that you now are the owner and > not merely a custodian? did the actual ex-owner copyright the materials of > which you speak? Did you gain those from a library, museum, or archives > that is open to the public? Then too, notice that the mere fact that you > are a descendant or relative of the person portrayed does not give you any > rights as against the owner of that memento or photo (we can copyright such > materials no matter the degree of kinship if any.