[AT] Titan tractor print

[Rick Weaver]

Unless the library has tracked down the original copyright holder and in
some manner obtained those rights, these images are most likely now in
the public domain and you can copy them at will.

But you'd need to do your own research to decide whether you can just
ignore the claims of ownership.  My approach would be to just ignore
them.

Rick

 

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Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 1:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [AT] Titan tractor print

Larry
I agree that this is a pretty gray area.  It is gray in so many ways,
whether it is a copy or even the original.  I'm more appalled by
businesses
and individuals patenting pieces of nature. e.g. plants which have been
on
the earth for millions of years.  The next step would be to patent and
protect the elements on the periodic table, requiring us to submit
royalties
to the owners of the patents.  I hope I haven't given anyone any ideas.

John Parks
Boise, Id
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From: "Larry D Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
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Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Titan tractor print


> I've been chewing on the inside of my lips all afternoon and evening
because
> of your email, John.  That is a nice print.  The image reminds me that
I
> have a digitally restored photograph of three Titan's with plows
attached
> and parked in front of the local IH dealership after field testing
them in
> Posey county, Indiana.  The original photo was on the wall of the
dealership
> and the owner loaned it to me to see what I could do with it.  So I
did a
> high-resolution scan of the photo (out of its frame) and then tweaked
the
> image to clean it up, bring back the brightness and contrast, and
print it
> out at a larger size than the original.  I gave him back three or four
good
> prints of it and a copy of the digital photo file.
>
> I do this sort of thing regularly with the thousands of photos that I
have
> custody of through genealogy work.  It really gets interesting when I
see
> claims of ownership like the one that accompanies the Wisconsin
History
file
> that you listed.  I ran into a similar claim of ownership of
historical
> photos in a library in Colorado -- not to be copied or modified, etc,
etc,
> ...  I recognized some of the photos in the library holdings as being
> identical to photos I have in my own collection.  The frustration
level of
> the poor archivist at the library nearly reached the breaking point
when
she
> saw that I had a number of photos that were obviously identical to
their
> holdings and that many of mine were in better condition than theirs.
>
> The bottom line is that libraries and historical societies are going
to
have
> a difficult time trying to uphold their claimed ownership of items
such as
> this while making them accessible to the public at the same time.  The
> philosophy of a great number of these organizations is that of
protectionism
> rather than free access.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Cullom" <jh_cullom at comcast.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:16 PM
> Subject: [AT] Titan tractor print
>
>
> >I finally got around to having this old IH Titan advertizing print
from
> >1919 professionally mounted
> > so it'll be preserved. I found it rolled up in an old outbuilding on
my
> > late grandfather's farm.
> > Part of it was mouse eaten, but most was in good shape. I know there
was
a
> > Titan on the farm many
> > years ago, so I surmised this poster came with the tractor, or was
an ad
> > they got from the dealer.
> > Here's a shot of it framed -
> > http://oldengine.org/members/jcullom/print.jpg. Here's a writeup on
the
> > print from the Wisconsin Historical Society -
> >
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=3557&formatNumber=
9999
000314.
> >
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