Copyright on old photos
2007 January 23
There are lots of very nice “old pictures at Old-Picture.com”:http://www.old-picture.com/, but strangely they claim copyright on the images — many of which are digital reproductions of works available in the public domain. I don’t think they can do that.
I suppose an argument might be made that the scanning of these documents represents “original work,” but somehow I doubt the copyright office would be sympathetic. I think that would be considered mere reproduction.
