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Dear colleagues,

I have received several requests to post the answers I received about reproducing images from a book.  .

 

 Here are the two answers I received:

“The cutoff date right now is 1923.  If the book is published prior to 1923, the photographs are in the public domain and can be used.  If they're 1923 and after, then one needs to get permission.  To know who to ask for permission, look at the list of

illustrations in the book -- usually the source will be listed and that's who you would contact.  If there's no source, I would start by asking the publisher.”

“It probably depends on the copyright holder. For example, if the images were from Andersen/Alinari, even though they were printed in 1915, they probably still hold the copyright for those particular images. If you can find a credit line for the images, it would be worth checking Art Resources to see if they are providing US rights for the particular firm.”

 

Since there is such interest in copyright and images, I would like to know if maybe ARLIS/NA could do an online workshop/training. I also think it will be very useful to create on the ARLIS/NA site a list of resources (in print and online) about images and copyright issues. This, hopefully, will clear much of the confusion.

 

Thank you for considering

 

Alessia Zanin-Yost

Reference Librarian

WCU