"Alasdair Baxter" wrote in message
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I have an old school photograph which was taken with a panning camera
resulting in a very long narrow strip.

I tried Jessops and Boots to get a copy made but they refused on the
ground that it was copyright.

Fair enough, but this was taken about fifty years ago and there's no
photographer's name on the print so I don't know how to set about
getting copyright clearance. Even if the photographer is dead and
gone or, being a company, has been dissolved, the copyright apparently
subsists for 75 years after the death of the photographer or the
demise of the company.

It occurred to me to deal with this in the same way as people deal
with restrictive covenants on land and take out insurance to cover any
possible claim by photographer's great-grandchildren or the Official
Receiver of the company.

Does anyone know how to get around this problem? How much research
effort is one supposed to do to track down the heirs of a long dead
photographer?
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Alasdair Baxter, Nottingham, UK.Tel +44 115 9705100; Fax +44 115 9423263

"It's not what you say that matters but how you say it.
It's not what you do that matters but how you do it"

2 practical solutions.

a) Photographically copy the original. I know
from having done it, to keep the focus at
the centre and the edges of these long photos
you have to lay the original on a curve ie
a circle with centre as the lens.
Then do what you like with the negative except
publishing i suppose.

b) Glue some card to the back of the oriiginal,
press between boards and weights and trim edges with
blade and straight-edge. Then any copyright
notice or such is obscured - oh!, damn, not another
inchoate offence.

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