International Newsreel
Rights and Restrictions Information
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730
Summary: International Newsreel was subsumed
by United Press International, which has
been bought by CORBIS. The use of photographs
taken by International Newsreel 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 UPI archives has been bought by CORBIS, which controls
the copying of UPI images physically housed in its archives in New York
City. CORBIS can be contacted at:
CORBIS
902 Broadway
New York, NY 10010
telephone: (888) 771-6200
web site: http://www.corbisimages.com |
CORBIS does not control the copying of International
Newsreel images housed in the Library of Congress. However, any copyright
held by International Newsreel that is still current would now be owned
by CORBIS. In an attempt to determine if International Newsreel 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if properly renewed, while works published after 1963 and unpublished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
13, 2003.
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