[CBQ] Re: Scanning Negatives

[Jan Kohl <j.kohl@wildblue.net>]

 > The woman selling these copy negatives on eBay, "lemonadesqueeze," has 
 > access 
to a large collection of railroad prints (her husband's or father's?) and makes 
copy negs > from them to sell -- a clear violation of copyright law.  She 
simply 
copies the information written on each print in listing the date and location 
for her eBay listings.  I've aided > her illegal effort a couple of times with 
purchases of copy negs that were quite obviously not taken when or where her 
listing said they were.

Actually, if the collection is from an estate that she is the beneficiary from 
(like her husband or father), she is perfectly within her rights to make copies 
of negatives.  What she *should* do is specify that the purchaser is getting a 
"copy", (i.e. a copy of the original negative) or the original.  From your 
description it sounds like she is making negative copies (and I think I've 
purchased a few from her).  Again, something she has a right to do if she owns 
the collection (willed from the original purchaser if she was not the 
photographer), but would cut down on a lot of confusion since many people 
assume 
if they've purchased a negative that they have an original.

Cheers!

Jan Kohl
castlegraphics.com


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