On 10/15/06, W. Guy Finley wgfinley@dynascope.com wrote:
Go to apimages.com and you will see a few hundred images we can't produce.
I'm seeing maybe 1.
They are timeless and unique just like the two photos I worked with them to get permissions on -- Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima and Trang Bang.
however not permission for reuse.
Same thing with CORBIS, go to their website, type in a name and start watching all the photos that come up. Could we get some of these as press publicity photos? Probably, asserting fair use. How about having an agreement in place with CORBIS about our use of them so there is never a question about the legitimacy of the use of an image?
Again this brings up reuse issues.
We should never stop looking for the free sources of images that we can obtain. But there are a whole slew of historical photographs owned by these media houses we do not have access to and that's what I was getting at. I know, because I've deleted them before. The press is everywhere and over decades has acquired scores of important images, I'd like to use them, LEGALLY while protecting the rights of their creators. A big pile of money would help us do that.
Problem is those are exactly the images they will not want to see released under a free licence. I agree that targeting individual items is the logical course
While purchase of large amounts of material might be nice I think we could get better value by having a "fighting fund" which is used to obtain images that cannot be obtained through any other means rather than bulk buying which is likely to result in a lot of duplicating material we can get in other ways.