CORBIS
Rights and Restrictions Information
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730
CORBIS has bought the photographic archives of several wire services,
including ACME (which includes Acme News Photos) and United Press
International (which includes Pacific & Atlantic; Newspaper
Enterprise Association, Inc. [NEA]; International Newsreel; William
H. Rau Collection; International News Photos; United Press Photos;
and UPI). Any current copyright of images by these services would
now be owned by CORBIS. Privacy and publicity rights may also apply.
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. CORBIS controls the copying of wire service images physically
housed in its archives in New York City. It does not control the copying
of wire services images housed in the Library of Congress. However, any
current copyright of images by these services would now be owned by CORBIS.
In an attempt to determine if any copyrights were registered 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. (the exception the NEA’s photographs of the Dionne Quintuplets,
which were registered and renewed). However, the Library’s 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works published after 1963 and unpublished photographs in the collection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. The
address for CORBIS is:
CORBIS
902 Broadway
New York, N.Y. 10010
telephone (888) 771-6200
Web site: http://www.corbisimages.com |
Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs
Division, [reproduction number, e.g., [LC-USZ62-12345]
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Prepared by: Prints and Photographs Division staff. Last revised: 2003
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