Copyright & the first sale rule
Court upholds ‘first sale’ rule You’re in Bangkok for a business meeting and you have some time to kill. You wander around the streets and happen across a bookstore with some English-language books at amazing prices. You grap up 12 copies of the hottest best...Keeping the lights on
Craig R. Scott, CG, is the President of Heritage Books, one of the few independent publishers of genealogical titles left in the United States. This week, Craig celebrated the fact that the Heritage Books Facebook page had reached 1,000 likes — a major milestone...Photochrom prints: images to use
More images we can use Every time The Legal Genealogist writes about copyright restrictions, somebody out there wails: “So what can I use to illustrate my family history?” What with unpublished works out of reach until 70 years after the creator’s death and some...Copyright, terms of use and Pinterest
Next in an occasional series on copyright and terms of use Every so often, the subject comes up… what about Pinterest? Millions of people use the site — which describes itself as “a tool for collecting and organizing things you love” — and...The commercial conundrum
Dark grey between the black and white Last week, The Legal Genealogist tackled half of reader Lynda Peach’s questions based on the launch of her new blog, idogenealogy.net. The easy half, about Microsoft clip-art. Now for the hard half. “Given that I have...Microsoft clip art on your blog?
The answer may surprise you It takes an awful lot to get The Legal Genealogist to like Microsoft but one of today’s questions from reader Lynda Peach, who’s launched a blog at idogenealogy.net, is going to come very close… Here’s what she asks:...Copyright, Corbis & terms of use
UPI photos and Corbis Reader Suzanne Smith had her hopes raised by yesterday’s post, “Copyright and the wire photo,” which noted that a very large number of images created by the major wire news services like Associated Press (AP) and United Press International...Copyright and the wire photo
Next in an occasional series on copyright — the news service Reader and fellow genealogy blogger Michael John Neill, who writes the popular and helpful Genealogy Tip of the Day posts, came across a photograph in a 1942 newspaper on GenealogyBank. The photo was...Copyright and the pen name
Next in an occasional series on copyright — the nom de plume She writes as Lisa / Smallest Leaf. She always has. But when the time came to branch out beyond her well-known genealogy blogs to a QuickGuide on Croatian Genealogy, she stopped to think. How, she wondered,...Subscribe by Email
