[Leica] "Life" Magazine photo archive hosted by Google

[leowesson at gmail.com (lug)]

Tina,

I'm guessing that there is some funny stuff going on.  Example:  if  
you search for the Migrant Mother by MB White you get the famous photo  
that you would expect but there is a Time copyright symbol in the  
bottom corner of the page and there is a "life" watermark on the  
image, but in fact the image is property of the public as it was shot  
for the FSA.  Another interesting thing is that there is no metadata  
in the downloaded jpg which is pretty much not how it's supposed to be  
done.

Leo




On Nov 18, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 08:23 PM 11/18/2008, you wrote:
>> And Tina, fair to note my comment too that people are largely  
>> unprepared to
>> pay for any sort of content, wherever that payment belongs.  On the  
>> previous
>> archive that was on a Life site, I recall that it was only the  
>> covers that
>> were available. I assumed that Life originally purchased the  
>> publishing
>> rights for those at the time?
>> Geoff
>
> More than likely most of the photographers were under contract to  
> Life, and at that time, signed a work for hire agreement turning  
> over all rights to the magazine.  Back then, work for hire was a  
> reasonable proposition since photographers also received a salary  
> and all benefits, as any other contract employees would.  Today that  
> is by far the exception rather than the rule.  Almost no  
> photographers receive salaries or benefits and are still expected to  
> sign over any rights for work for hire jobs.  ASMP advices all  
> photographers to refuse work for hire agreements.
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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