I need your advice!!
We are a library with a local history collection, which
includes app. 2,000 images. What has been customary when someone brings in a
photograph, is to make a copy negative and leave the original with the owner.
The standard form that has been used in the past, gives the library, so far as
it is known, copyright.
A local newspaper was contacted by an out-of-town company to
publish a pictorial "history" of the county, which they are in the process of
doing. Numerous articles and ads have asked the residents to bring in their old
photos. The book is not out yet, but they are using some of the photos in their
recent ads, and they are photos we have in our collection, and the copyright
form was signed. The newspaper also had them sign copyright over to the
newspaper.
Any suggestions or advice???? I have seen the form
|