On 18/05/07, sean@epoptic.com sean@epoptic.com wrote:
Dear smart people:
What procedure I should follow when someone denies that I do not own a copyright that in fact I do own?
I have been assigned the copyrights to my grandfather's books, and I'm even being paid royalties from the publisher of one of them. No one who is qualified to have an opinion has any doubt that I am the copyright holder. One particular user, on the other hands, knows that everyone else is wrong (and that I am lying).
The dispute is focused on an image of the cover of one of the books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:5CSL.jpg - I assume?
I note that - as far as I can tell - the issue at use isn't really that you own the copyright to the books, it's that you state that "the copyright to the *actual cover image* is held by Dodd, Mead & Company" [emphasis mine].
The fact that he was the author is, as far as I can tell, not really relevant here... you're not uploading the text, which you own the rights to, but a derivative of the cover image, which you state you don't.
(Yes, they are being rude in not accepting your perfectly upfront explanation. But it doesn't seem to matter - whether true or not, the image is still apparently unfree)