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Subject: [Leica] National trust photography rules
From: mail at steveunsworth.co.uk (Steve Unsworth)
Date: Wed Jul 27 12:18:14 2005

Presumably they mention 'previously unpublished photographs' because I
would already have copyright of photographs taken and published before
I'd signed the agreement.

Don't know what the copyright period is.

Steve


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Of Philippe Orlent
Sent: 27 July 2005 20:04
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] National trust photography rules


As I read it it doesn't state that it is about your photographs, does
it? + What is the full period of copyright exactly?


> From: Steve Unsworth <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:58:31 +0100
> To: LUG <LUG@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] National trust photography rules
> 
> I went to a National Trust property in the UK the other day and had to

> sign a document to obtain a photography permit. It was only when I got

> home that I read it properly and found the following clauses...
> 
> "I assign to the National Trust the entire copyright worldwide of 
> previously unpublished photographs for the full period of copyright 
> and all extensions and renewals of it, and confirm that the National 
> Trust shall be duly credited as owner of copyright."
> 
> So it appears that I have signed away the copyright of anything I 
> photographed to the National Trust.
> 
> Is it just me, or does this seem a little draconian?
> 
> Steve
> 
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