Message-Id: <mailto:199410032040.AA15810@wugate.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 12:08:23 -0500 From: Marty Wachter <mailto:mrw%WELCHGATE.WELCH.JHU.EDU@wuvmd.bitnet> Subject: Re: copyrights To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
> At Augustana College Library, we're working on a project scanning
> in images to be accesible through Mosaic to other schools over
> the Internet. Several of the images I'd like to use are postcards, some
> from the early 1900s. I'm unsure about copyright regulations, though;
> are there specific laws regarding postcards? I know the laws vary
> for different types of print works. How many years must go by before
> a copyright expires?
I don't know about the expiration, but chances are that the original photographer of any image holds the copyright. You should get permission to use ANY photograph from the author, the photographer.
Marty Wachter "You will become one, with the Mac" Senior Software Engineer Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Office of Medical Informatics and Education