40 yr.old copyright pics,and Tektite question.....

parafins · Post by **parafins** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:52 am

Last night I attempted to take pics w/ my digital camera of a 1968 issue of National Geographic.Do any of you see a problem with posting 40 year old copyright pics? I would like to share them with the forum but don't want to be strung up for doing so.

Also I would like to know when the Tektite project took place.I thought it was 1969? I'm asking because there's a picture of a General Motors funded underwater project that was taken in December of '67 and published in January '68 in the National Geographic.It claimed that the underwater site was off of S.T.T. I wonder if this is indeed The Tektite project?? The pic was taken underwater in some type of cage with a guy dressed in suba gear.Thank for any help.Parafins

loria · Post by **loria** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 12:01 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektite_habitat

1969 it is....acccording to wikipedia...
copyright is sort of unclear..i think it depends on the type of work (and when it was published) it appears that things are a bit more straightforward for thigns after january of 1978, but for stuff before that....??? sorry not to be more help.

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MrB · Post by **MrB** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:28 pm

parafins wrote:Last night I attempted to take pics w/ my digital camera of a 1968 issue of National Geographic.Do any of you see a problem with posting 40 year old copyright pics? I would like to share them with the forum but don't want to be strung up for doing so.

I would think that simply posting them on the forum would be ok. I would think it comes under 'fair use'. It's not like your selling them.

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:42 pm

I would LOVE to see the pictures. My oceanography class from St. Croix took a field trip over to St. John to observe Tektite. Fun for us teenagers! This was in Oct 1970 so it was still going on then.

Lulu76 · Post by **Lulu76** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:10 pm

It has been more than 10 years since my last media law class, but I do believe you'd be OK under fair use. You just need to give proper credit to the publication. There's not really anyway for you to make money off them.

RonUSVI · Post by **RonUSVI** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:54 pm

You can use this scale to see about public domain or not. It's pretty cool.
http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

pjayer · Post by **pjayer** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:15 pm

I'd like to see the pictures. Please post. If you're caught and there's a trial, we'll all testify as character witnesses for the defense.

loria · Post by **loria** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:17 pm

ron, that's a cool tool!

parafins · Post by **parafins** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:42 am

pjayer wrote:I'd like to see the pictures. Please post. If you're caught and there's a trial, we'll all testify as character witnesses for the defense.

That's pretty funny pjayer! If I was found guilty maybe I could spend the rest of my life on S.T.J.-how about the Westin?Pool boy would be nice!

Thanks all I'll work on the project over the weekend!Parafins

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