[WikiEN-l] Grandmother copyrighted anonymous works

[Rory Stolzenberg]

On 9/9/06, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/9/06, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If the original author doesn't care about attribution, or their rights
> > as photographer, or what happens to the image, then get them to assign
> > the copyright to someone else in a deed. Then the other person can do
> > whatever they want with the image, since they own the copyright.
> >
> Copyright assignment might work.  But is the listed source supposed to
> be the author or the copyright holder?
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Usually it's both since they're one and the same, but we actually want the
copyright holder.  It doesn't matter to us who took it, only who owns it,
since that's who would be using the license that we have to know. Same with
fair use images; we want to know the copyright holder, not some random
website with the image (though that is helpful if it says who the copyright
owner is).