[Leica] "Life" Magazine photo archive hosted by Google

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

FORTUNE magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White preparing to take a
picture from high atop a NYC building.
Location:    New York, NY, US
Date taken:    1931
Size:    883 x 1280 pixels (12.3 x 17.8 inches)

With her Graflex Reflex
And Bob hair cut.

People do not know that SLR's did not start with 35mm
But 4x5.


http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=photographer+source:life&imgurl=c97
96ed5879957ad

http://graflex.org/RBGraflex/#GraflexPhotography





> From: Bob W <leica@web-options.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:39:25 -0000
> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] "Life" Magazine photo archive hosted by Google
> 
> Many of the pictures are by Magnum photographers, who were with Magnum at
> the time, so the copyright belongs to Magnum and the photographer('s
> estate). Publishing the pictures (again) doesn't necessarily breach
> copyright. Presumably at the time of original publication Life had a
> contract which included the right to re-publish.
> 
> It will be interesting to see how Magnum reacts, given that they were
> founded specifically to defend their photographers' copyright. The trouble
> is that in situations like this the small fish often loses, whatever the
> merits of the case, simply because of money. I heard Philip Jones Griffiths
> talk about Francis Ford Copolla's use of Griffiths's photos in Apocalypse
> Now! without permission or attribution. When they broached Copolla about it
> his reaction according to Griffiths was 'those words so beloved of
> Hollywood: Sue Me!'. Magnum couldn't afford to.
> 
> Bob 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+leica=web-options.com@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+leica=web-options.com@leica-users.org] On
>> Behalf Of Ted Grant
> [...]
>> 
>> HOWEVER! If you were a freelance, in other words, you owned
>> your own company
>> and leased your services for a particular assignment. Then by
>> all means you
>> should receive extra compensation if the material is being sold again.
>> 
>> This is a very tough topic to work through from an
>> independent business
>> person point of view and the opposite. a hired gun to a magazine or
>> government employer situation point of view.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> ted
> 
> 
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