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
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From: "Dean DeBolt" <[log in to unmask]>
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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
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-----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


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