To Sudek 13

[brewerjerry]

Originally Posted by Franek Grabowski

Bullshit, he has only prints but no copyrights!

Hi,
True .......
Whilst working at the Tate gallery, UK. about a year ago, I was in the 'archive ' section, and asked about photographs clearly explaining the,
'acquiring and copying of ' ww2 photos,
Apparently even if you have the negative of the photograph you may not have copyright unless the 'original photographer' released or sold the copyright to you, and you have to prove it.
If not it remains with the 'original photographer' or the company the photographer was employed by.
And in the case of an 'individual photographer' copyright can be passed to surviving family via estate once.
I didn't get time to discuss crown copyright etc.

As a publisher once told me, when I said I didn't know the copyright /or I got no reply....
'We will just publish' if someone complains we will agree on some money.
For the record this I withdrew from this book.

One suggestion was as RAF aircraft photos were mainly photographed by RAF personnel, the RAF personnel were employed by the RAF,so almost all the photos, in theory could be crown copyright.
Cheers
Jerry