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Re: Image copyrights, again

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott2~at~kreative.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:29:04 -0400
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

I would like to recommend that you contact the Project gutenberg page for
copyright information, or e-mail Greg Newby their copyright guru. If you are
talking about publication in the united states, I understand that everyghing
published before 1923, regardless of where is free of copyright. This would
incude the entire book. Of course unpublished photos etc are still subject
to copyright in some countries (notably the UK). The Library of Congress has
considerable information, from which I think you may find that no
distinction is made between a book and an illustration in the book. PG
routinely reproduces images from pre-1923 books, and they are quite fussy.

nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu Friar Wolcott, Gutenberg Abbey, Sherwood Forrest
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Harpold" <tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Image copyrights, again


> On Wednesday, September 1, 2004, Jean-Michel Margot
<jmmargot~at~mindspring.com> writes:
>
> >Fifty years after the death of the author (not counting the wars years),
> >his material (text and illustrations) are in the public domain in France.
> >It's now 40 years that scholars around the world duplicate Hetzel's Verne
> >engravings in their scholarly publications.
>
> To complicate my question a bit further: which applies in the case of
Hetzel's editions -- the death of the author, the death of the artist, or
the date of publication of the work? What do we know about Hetzel's control
over the rights to reproduction of work by those who contributed to the
editions (illustrators, authors, illustrators, engravers, etc.) In a modern
vernacular, the question would be perhaps phrased, "Did any of the artists
retain rights after publication, or were they signed entirely over to the
publisher?" Was that distinction even operative in late 19th-century French
publishing?
>
> Assuming that the rights to images from the _Voyages extraordinaires_ have
passed into the public domain, is it still possible that, in the case of
selected editions or illustrations, that someone must give permission for
their reproduction -- such as is the case, for example, of paintings which
were painted, say, more than a century ago, but which reside in a museum?
I've always been a little unclear on that matter.
>
> My prospective editor reports that the 50-70-75 year time lapse is not
sufficient; he needs proof that no one still controls rights to the images.
It's a legitimate question in a litigious era, but I'm not sure about where
to begin to answer it...
>
> TH
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> Terry Harpold
> Assistant Professor
> Department of English
> University of Florida
>
> tharpold~at~acm.org
> tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu
> http://www.english.ufl.edu/~tharpold
>
> "Reading in no way obliges you to understand."
>
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