Acme Photographs
Rights and Restrictions Information
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730
The use of photographs taken by ACME (which includes Acme News
Photos) may be restricted.
Access: Permitted; subject to P&P policy on serving
originals.
Reproduction (photocopying, hand-held camera copying,
photoduplication and other forms of copying allowed by "fair
use"): Permitted,
subject to P&P policy on copying.
Publication and other forms of distribution: May be
restricted. The ACME archives has been bought by CORBIS, which controls
the copying of ACME images physically housed in its archives in New York
City. CORBIS can be contacted at:
CORBIS does not control the copying of ACME images housed in the Library
of Congress. However, any copyright held by ACME that is still current
would now be owned by CORBIS. In an attempt to determine if ACME registered
any copyrights and if those copyrights were renewed, Specialists in the
Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress searched the
Copyright Office files. It was found that only a few images were registered
for copyright and those copyrights were not renewed. However, the Librarys
legal office has advised the Division that photographs published with
proper copyright notices between 1923-1963 may be protected if properly
renewed, while works published after 1963 and unpublished photographs
in the collection may be protected even if they were not registered with
the Copyright Office. Additionally, researchers should be advised that
determining the copyright status of photographs can be problematic because
of the lack of pertinent information, and researchers often have to make
calculated risk decisions concerning the appropriate use of an image
when its copyright status is unknown or ambiguous. Privacy and publicity
rights may also apply.
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
Division, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-123456]
For more information, please read: Copyright
and Other Restrictions: ... Sources for Information
Prepared by: Prints and Photographs Division staff. Last revised: January
3, 2003.
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