On 5/22/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Arwel Parry wrote:
I think we need to apply a modicum of common sense when handling copyrights, particularly when determining who is the actual copyright holder is inherently indeterminable.
For example, if I had sufficiently bad taste as to upload the primary school portrait of me at age 7, taken in 1966, I would consider it reasonable for the subject, me, to release the photo under GFDL, or PD or whatever, as:
- I have absolutely no idea who took photographs of primary school
children in Denbighshire, Wales forty years ago,
- my parents paid good money for that photo (possibly as much as a
shilling or two),
This could make it a work for hire. A licence from your parents may be required. :-)
Depends. When did they implement the "everything is copyrighted" law in Wales? If it was after 1966, then your parents were paying for the *service* of having the photo taken, and the image itself was never copyrighted. (Of course, now we'd get into the mess of "unpublished works" and "date and place of first publication"...)