Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would suggest forwarding inquires to Google about these issues. If there are reasons for conspiracy theories we'd have a better picture then. Making assertions without any sort of dialog with Google does no one any service at all. Adam On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:05 PM, lug <leowesson@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >