This is an off-shoot of the recent question about privacy and portraits on the web. What about the copyright issues with digitizing portraits? Modern professional photographers often stamp the back of their prints with copyright claims. Do these copyright claims have legal basis? What about older photos (many of ours are '40-'60s) which bear the name of a company or studio, but nothing else? Thanks, Melissa Martinez Librarian, Bishop O'Rourke Library St. John's Catholic Newman Center Phone: (217) 255-6610 Email: [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean DeBolt" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:21 PM Subject: Re: photo portraits on the web and privacy This may tread on some other issues but I constantly remind people that history is people history. History happens because of actions of people. I don't believe any kind of visual history is possible without use of people in pictures. Yes, there is probably a privacy issue, however a simple policy might be that you will remove images at the request of a person in the photograph. Many of our county clerks in Florida have been making images of court records online; many have used systems that sheet-feed documents, so there is not an automatic reading of every line in a document. Instead they have put disclaimers on their sites that say in effect certain items can be removed from online viewing upon application by the person. For example, there are thousands or hundreds of thousands of mortgage documents and other items that will include phone numbers, social security numbers, and other "privacy" hotkeys. And since some of these data elements are no longer private as time goes by, they find it easier to let people petition for removal of an image due to privacy. I would recommend that as a means of compromising between the extremes of privacy and litigation paranoia and the total lack of using images that contain people. Dean Dean DeBolt University Librarian, Special Collections John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 850-474-2213 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Michael Ridderbusch Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:07 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: photo portraits on the web and privacy In the course of digitizing our photograph collection and putting it up on the web we have included portraits of students and others from around the 1960s. In doing this we have some concern about invasion of privacy. Has anyone else done the same? If so, have you received complaints? Thanks for any assistance. Michael Ridderbusch A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>