Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial Magazine
Published by kgroetsch March 25th, 2007 in Misc. Ephemera.
Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial Magazine - Cover, originally uploaded by Oldtasty.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had any time to update the site, but I wanted to alert anyone who’s dropping by that I’ve added a new publication to my Flickr site, a September, 1970 issue of Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial Magazine. Great images, and lots of copy, so any translator who wants to have a crack at it, go for it.
3 Responses to “Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial Magazine”
- 1 Trackback on Sep 5th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Kurt:
What makes you think that these images of clip art from these propaganda books (intended for the public) are protected under any copyright, CC or otherwise? Just because you’ve scanned them doesn’t mean you have the authority to assign any copyrights to them.
If they were part of a photographic essay of sorts, and you’ve manipulated them for artistic use as a photographer or collage artist, then maybe I could see the end result being your copyright.
I’d just like to hear your logic on the subject, since I think you are unable to protect the images under any laws here in the US or abroad.
Actual protection may simply be that they remain in a shoebox under your bed and not shared at all…but as a librarian, I’m sure that is far from your goals.
There are a couple of interesting points to be made in response to your rather… pointed questions:
1) Flickr doesn’t provide any means to indicate that an image is in or has been contributed to the public domain. The only licenses available are “All rights reserved” or one of the many flavors of Creative Commons (see http://www.oldtasty.com/images/Flickr_Licenses.gif). I choose to license my photos under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0, so my scans inherit that license by default.
2) Regardless of any copyright assertions I may make (including “All rights reserved”), the scans are still subject to fair use as outlined in the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107: “Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.”
3) Regardless of any copyright assertions I may make, Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. can also be invoked by anyone who wants to use these images as there is little to them but “slavish copying.”
So really, the issue of the CC license is irrelevant. I could slap watermarks all over them or make them otherwise useless for reproduction purposes by defacing them, but I don’t because I believe they should be available to the community.
However… that doesn’t mean I can’t and don’t withhold high-resolution versions of my scans. If someone wants to use them for republication, I’m perfectly willing to charge a fee. Acquiring these items isn’t cheap, and I see this as a fair trade. I’m not a publicly funded institution.
As an administrative note, I’m going to delete your other comments and confine my response to this thread.
Kurt