Comment by perihelions
5 years ago
Imagine living so long you have photographs of yourself whose copyright terms expired. Would Wikipedia be allowed to use those without permission?
5 years ago
Imagine living so long you have photographs of yourself whose copyright terms expired. Would Wikipedia be allowed to use those without permission?
With the life+70 system we have now, it would be physically impossible for photos taken today to go public domain before said person dies. "Works for hire", OTOH, are 95 years from publication or 120 from creation (whichever expires first). With those, it is theoretically possible that a photo of a toddler would go public domain before they die.
The photographer and not the subject is the owner of the copyright. So life+70 it would be with regards to the photographer. So if a grandparent photographed their baby grandchild and died shortly afterward, when the grandchild was in their 70’s the photo would enter the public domain.
True. I forgot about that fact and was thinking as if the child owned the copyright somehow
Why isn't it work for hire? Assuming a professional photographer rather than a family snapshot of course.
I guess one could always try to sue to get your embarrassing baby photos redacted from publication. Oh, it's been tried before and failed? Nevermind.
Yes, that's rather much the point of copyright expiration.