On May 6, 2006, at 7:24 AM, Guettarda wrote:
If you have unpublished photographs taken by a
deceased relative
which you
wish to use on Wikipedia, how would you license them? Assuming
that you
have survivor rights or permission from other heirs of the
photographer,
would it be possible to release them under the GFDL or cc by sa?
If they
were taken by, say, your grandfather, and there is nothing in his will
dealing with "other stuff", would you have to get permission from
all of his
surviving children, or their heirs (if the children are deceased)?
I'm
assuming here that the photographs are otherwise unpublished, and
were taken
recently enough/the person was alive recently enough that they
would still
be covered by copyright.
My understanding is that if you're the heir, you inherit all
property, including intellectual property, and can do with it as you
see fit.
--
Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch