Joan Bari Evening Bag…Magid Evening Bag…Vinyl Pockets Shower Curtain…Carleton Sheets Real Estate Course

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OR ….Copyright, in a nutshell

Ok, you see an image you just love and it looks old, so you just assume it’s no longer copyrighted and go ahead and use it.  Are you in trouble with copyright or not?

Maybe…

It depends on how old the image is.  Copyright laws assign the right to use an image to the creator of the work for the life of the person plus 70 years.    This means that the creator is the owner of the image and must grant you permission to use the image, usually for a fee. 

Copyright law applies to

• literary works
• musical works, including any accompanying words
• dramatic works, including any accompanying music
• pantomimes and choreographic works
• pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works
• motion pictures and other audiovisual works
• sound recordings
• architectural works

 However, there are some exceptions.  Any work created and published by the US Government is not copyrightable.  It is in the “public domain”.  The claim that “pre-1923 works are in the public domain” is correct  for published works.  Also, works published between 1923 and 1964 needed an application to extend their copyright.  Most did not do so and so are now in the public domain.  So, to make a long story short…

1. If your image was created and published prior to 1923, you are not in trouble.
2. If your image was created by the US government, you are not in trouble.
3. If the image was created between 1923 and 1964 and was not copyright renewed, you are not in trouble.
4. Any thing else…you are in trouble.

Well, either you are in trouble or you’d better do some quick research and contact the owner of the image to get permission to use it. After all, that’s the right thing to do anyway.

Bobby Vee…Perry Como…Brothers in Him…Paul Peterson

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Seattle Space Needle…Portland Oregon Skyline…Hits from South Pacific…Dotts Johnson…Jane Morgan…Marian Anderson

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Hungarian String Quartet:Mozart, Quartet #15 in D Minor…Boston Pops Orchestra: Warsaw Concerto…Halle Orchestra: Beethoven, Symphony #5 in C Minor and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Mozart Symphony #42 in C…Marian Anderson

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Durer, Nurnberg…Herrsching am Ammersee…Cuvillies Theatre,Munich…Art Postcard Set, Olauf Leinwand…Yorkshire Terrier…2 German Calligraphy

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10 Postcards, Views of Nurnberg, Bavaria, Germany

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7 Postcards, Views of Nurnberg, Bavaria, Germany…2 Lithographs & 5 by Artist L. Mobler

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What???

Relax, it’s just post card collecting. You know, the cards that people mailed from vacation spots, greetings for a special day or just to show off a special interest.

It turns out that this is the 3rd largest collecting hobby after stamps and money. …..Who knew?

Here is a small part of the history according to wikipedia.
“…there are some general rules to dating when a postcard was printed. Postcards are generally sent within a few years of their printing so the postmark helps date a postcard. If the card is original and not a reprint, a postcard’s original printing date can be deduced from such things as the fashions worn by people in the card, the era in which the cars on the street were made, and other time sensitive clues.

Picture postcards (PPCs) can be assigned to “the Golden Age of Postcards” (1898-1918), the time of the linens (circa 1930-1950), or to the modern chromes (after 1940), Modern chromes are color photographs and thus differ from photochromes generated from black and white photographs prior to WWI. PPCs can also be differentiated on the basis of other features: undivided backs are typical for c1901-1906, and divided backs for c1907-1915, while white border cards are common from c1915-1930.”

German Comic Postcard…German My Mother…1977 German Calendar…Art Postcard Durer Hare…Postcard Danube River Valley…Greetings from Berchtesgaden…St Bartholomae, Koningssee

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