Re: how is a gallery to cope (yright)?

On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, Richard Wilkerson <rcwilk[_at_]dreamgate.com> wrote:
>
> I had a question about copyright and graphics *of* paintings.
>
> First, what is the proper phrase for saying the graphics of the
> paintings are copyrighted and all rights are reserved on a web page?
>
> Second, what if all the paintings have *different* copyright years?
> Is there a general statement to handle all this?
>
> Third, many of the paintings are owned by the gallery, but
> copyrighted by the painters. They have given permission for a graphic
> to go online, but what is the status of that graphic and how to best
> state that in electronic format?

Richard:

I use the following on my web page at cerebalaw.com. It was written to cover both text and graphics. I've inserted "the gallery" below in lieu of my name, but otherwise have not edited it. The part about rights in remote links you could modify to fit the rights of others in the images of the paintings, and you don't have to spell out what any of those rights are (e.g., as to the dates they run out, etc.) I precede what is below with the usual copyright notice (i.e., mine) and the "All Rights Reserved" phrase. See <http://www.cerebalaw.com/>.

Bill Lovell
<wsl[_at_]cerebalaw.com>

Except for copying to disk for archival purposes, and for normal fair use exceptions relating to the quoting of short passages for purposes of commentary and the like, no part of the writing or the non-public domain graphics either herein or in the local links hereto may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted or retransmitted in any form by any means without the express prior written consent of [the gallery]. Rights in remote links are as established by their respective owners. Received on Sun Aug 06 2000 - 03:59:16 GMT