geni wrote:
On 7/22/07, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Corbis aggregates archives. Bettman acquired the UPI archive. UPI acquired the picture from Albert Sasse. Someone has claimed that he was an employee, but can we be sure of that? Can Corbis trace its ownership of the rights with documentation? Do they even want to go there?
They are fairly trigger happy in terms of writeing letters.
Probably so. That can be quite intimidating to most people. This Einstein picture would probably not be a good one for them to take a stand on, but that's as much because of the nature of the picture itself; too many people would turn it into a big joke against them. That's also what would make it a poor precedent for anything else.
At some point someone will challenge whether Corbis really owns the copyright of some of the pictures in its archives, possibly on a variety of bases including a lack of a clear title.. I'm NOT saying that we should be the ones to do it, but it should be fun to watch.
Ec