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Originally Posted by CJE
My advice is that you'd better avoid that kind of thing with two collections: BA and ECPA-D.
The latter consider their collection as a war-booty.
The former are very agressive in terms of copyright and now threaten to sue anyone who publishes their photographs without full credit (including the photographer's name! This no joke...) and paying the reproduction rights.
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This situation, of course, raises more questions:
1. what if one has an original, over 65-year-old print off the same negative, which is now hold by BA/ECPA?
2, what if a print, which was made off the original negative hold by BA/ECPA many years ago then copied is now 'floating' around without the proper credit? No one can possibly know 100% what these two archives have in their collection.
3, As far as I know, the material now in collection of BA-MA was returned to Germany from the US, where it had been thoroughly copied. BA-MA cannot claim ownership of these older copies made in the US.