[WikiEN-l] Grandmother copyrighted anonymous works

[Anthony]

On 9/9/06, Rory Stolzenberg <rory096 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

> 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).

I guess that sounds like a reasonable request, then.  After all, one
might need to contact the copyright holder in order to ask them for a
different license (by-sa instead of GFDL, GPL instead of by-sa, etc).

I'll have to think of the best way to accomplish this if I want to go
that route.

Anthony