Digital BW, The Print

I think disclosure of the facts is required for the sale of these prints to
be non-deceptive.  If all is disclosed - which really should not be a
problem - then making these images available more widely appears to be legal
and ethical - maybe even beneficial.  They are a public archive of our
history.  That they were photographed by famous people is irrelevant.  Those
photographers knew what they were doing when they were working for the
government.

 

(The work I did in government was and remains public.  In fact, the
gathering and dissemination of information that helps guide the society was
and remains the main point of some of the most important work I or other
government employees do.  If you're really into public service, it's just
not about money.  It's about making a better world.  I think the
photographers had that in mind when, for example, they helped publicize the
plight of the depression dust bowl victims or the Japanese Americans in
internment camps.  This democracy can only correct problems if the voters
know about them.  Sorry about the OT editorial.)

 

Paul

www.PaulRoark.com <http://www.paulroark.com/>  

 

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bob
Michaels
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:48 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Terrific article on Walker Evans in today's New
York Times

 

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

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
eThePrint@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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