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[Digital BW] Re: Terrific article on Walker Evans in today's New York Times

2006-08-26 by Bob Michaels

LOC specifically says these are not copyrighted and in public domain. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Ken Carney"
<kcarney1@...> wrote:
>
> AFIK the U.S. cannot assert copyright on its own works, so it should
be OK
> to sell them, in the U.S. at least.  BTW I just downloaded a 174mb
file from
> the site, though as you say most are too small.  In a number of
cases they
> have large tif files of scans from the original negative and the print
> paired.  Fascinating stuff indeed.  
> 
> > Jackson even earlier. That site is loaded with facinating stuff, but
> > don't go trying to sell prints from these files. They belong to the
> > American government. Like they said some of the files are too small
> > and some are borderline usable. Some are jpegs and some are tiffs.
> > I'm going to look more into it.
> > 
> > John
>

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