Re: Images

From: Kurt Foss <kfoss[_at_]doit.wisc.edu>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 10:37:22 -0600

At 5:55 PM 12/9/94, Cindy Hall wrote:
>Did anyone respond to this question? I am interested in the digitized
>image database copyright question. If we produce a digitized image
>(digitized photograph) of all our faculty, staff, and students and
>store these images in a database for multiple uses, are there any
>copyright implications or possible infractions.

     For starters, who is "we?" And what exactly is meant by "produce?" Who *took* the images? Under what conditions and arrengement with the subjects? The photographer owns the copyright to the image (content) unless it's a written work-for-hire arrangement (as in a salaried employee opposed to a freelance). And if it's not a staff photographer, what rights have been purchased from the photographer or his/her agent? These questions seem to come first in answering this more fully.

~ Kurt/National Press Photographers Association (NPPA)

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Kurt Foss * U_Wisconsin-Madison Div. of Info. Technology 608/262-1738 * FAX 608/262-4679 * kfoss[_at_]doit.wisc.edu

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