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Originally Posted by thekingofclout
I like that Scott. But I'm not quite sure if I would own the copyrights just because I owned the negative. Maybe one of the board's Barristers could check in with a legal opinion.
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My understanding is that anything before 1923 (I think that's right) is public domain, so you don't own the copyright - no one does. But that doesn't matter - you have the only negative and you are the one creating the limited edition prints.
What's always baffled me is, while no one owns the printed image, do you own the scan of the printed image; i.e - can I use someone's scan of a pre-1923 image?