On 10/15/06, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Does Corbis even own the copyright on the images they archive? What about AP?
This is a bit off topic, but Corbis CLAIMS to own the copyright on all of their images. They have a substantial number of public domain images in their catalog as well that they claim to own the copyright on as well (i.e. many images from the 19th century, some which were created by the U.S. federal government, etc.), because they "own the copyright to the scan" (at least, that's what their lawyer told me when I asked about a few of them in particular). Which is of course bullshit, but they don't seem to mind charging people licensing fees "for the scan". If we want to do anything with them, let's make sure we don't pay for anything that shouldn't need to be paid for.
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