Re: Need guidance on posting photographs

Posted by Derrell Poole on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Need-guidance-on-posting-photographs-tp1394p1458.html

FWIW - as far as I'm concerned I'm living proof copyrights and ownership of intellectual property laws are ca-ca! The DSP&PHS refused to correct a credit line to indicate Mal Ferrell's article in the Oct. 2012 issue of "the bogies and the loop" was almost a direct copy of my work in the Outdoor Railroader issue on the Tiffany Reefers. (That good ol' boy crony "society" can KMA until the likes of both male and female windolf and their pet schoppe cease to have any control over the society).  Furthermore. Ferrell published, without my permission, the drawings on page 361 of "The South Park Line". (Apparently he felt that since he could not get ahold of me he had every right to use my work without permission - even tho I told him pointy blank when I gave him the drawing in the early 1990s that he MUST obtain my permission if he ever wanted to publish it!!!). While I appreciate that he gave me credit I was not given the courtesy to grant that permission. I was not given the opportunity to review the drawing for any corrections or updates. And I have never been compensated or given the opportunity to waive compensation - out of friendship.

I am the creator of that drawing and I am also the author of the words and thoughts that went into my articlers. When I assume room temperature I will pass those rights to my children. Thereafter should they choose to dispose of those rights someone else will have opportunity under the law to copyright them - here is where I disagree with the law espe4cvially about historical information; once the originator disposes of the rights they should pass to the American people as part of their heritage - in other words I hold no ownership over the intellectual information from any photo I have - even when I own the negatives - if I did not create the image.  

So. As far as I'm concerned I've come to understand that protection of information and photos in this little corner of history is MEANINGLESS!