International News
Photos
Rights and Restrictions Information
Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730
International News Photos was subsumed by United Press International,
which has been bought by CORBIS. The use of photographs taken by
International 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 UPI archives (which includes International News Photos)
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 does not control the copying of International News Photos images
housed in the Library of Congress. However, any copyright held by International
News Photos that is still current would now be owned by CORBIS. In an
attempt to determine if International News Photos 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while works published after 1963 and unpublished photographs in the collection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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