[AT] Titan tractor print

[Guy Fay]

In fact the Wisconsin Historical Society received the items from the original copyright owner along with certain rights- however, the Society has to take steps to protect the rights of the original owner.
> 
> 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
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of JParks
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 1:11 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry D Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> 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"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > 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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