Comments on: Great War photos on Flickr http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/ Failing better at understanding the past Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:39:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Investigations of a Dog » Back to the World Wars http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-4898 Investigations of a Dog » Back to the World Wars Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:53:06 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-4898 [...] done this week, but at the weekend I did some more First World War stuff. In April I posted about World War I on Flickr, when I uploaded my great-grandfather’s photos from Cottbus PoW camp. Now I’ve added [...] [...] done this week, but at the weekend I did some more First World War stuff. In April I posted about World War I on Flickr, when I uploaded my great-grandfather’s photos from Cottbus PoW camp. Now I’ve added [...]

]]> By: ClioWeb » Archive » History Carnival 52 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-3975 ClioWeb » Archive » History Carnival 52 Tue, 01 May 2007 20:50:41 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-3975 [...] Robinson indirectly addresses digitization by using Flickr in some interesting ways. His “Great War photos on Flickr” explains how historians can do some pretty useful things with images in a Flickr account. [...] [...] Robinson indirectly addresses digitization by using Flickr in some interesting ways. His “Great War photos on Flickr” explains how historians can do some pretty useful things with images in a Flickr account. [...]

]]> By: History Blogs: a new dawn « Victoria’s cross? http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-3972 History Blogs: a new dawn « Victoria’s cross? Tue, 01 May 2007 07:57:17 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-3972 [...] other applications such as MySpace, Flikr, newsgroups and more. Some historians are trying this (Gavin Robinson recently published pictures of his family during WW1 at Flickr), but it needs more control and [...] [...] other applications such as MySpace, Flikr, newsgroups and more. Some historians are trying this (Gavin Robinson recently published pictures of his family during WW1 at Flickr), but it needs more control and [...]

]]> By: Gavin Robinson http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-3575 Gavin Robinson Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:31:09 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-3575 Although the photos are owned by my family, we don't own the copyrights. If a copyright holder appears and objects to them being published then I'll take them down (and hope that that's the end of it), but on the balance of probabilities it seems unlikely. Some of them are genuine orphans which can't be attributed to anyone in particular. Where the photographer's name is known, I haven't been able to find a date of death. If they died more than 70 years ago then the photos will be in the public domain but if not they're still under copyright. In practice there are Great War photos all over the web and in printed books which probably haven't got copyright clearance. One or two of our photos are likely to be featured in a new book about 5th Lincolnshire Regiment, and the authors' opinion is that they should get away with using orphan works, although when they have a publisher things might change. There's a rumour that unpublished photos created before 1957 go out of copyright 70 years after creation regardless of the death of the author, but I haven't seen any official confirmation of that yet. Although the photos are owned by my family, we don’t own the copyrights. If a copyright holder appears and objects to them being published then I’ll take them down (and hope that that’s the end of it), but on the balance of probabilities it seems unlikely. Some of them are genuine orphans which can’t be attributed to anyone in particular. Where the photographer’s name is known, I haven’t been able to find a date of death. If they died more than 70 years ago then the photos will be in the public domain but if not they’re still under copyright.

In practice there are Great War photos all over the web and in printed books which probably haven’t got copyright clearance. One or two of our photos are likely to be featured in a new book about 5th Lincolnshire Regiment, and the authors’ opinion is that they should get away with using orphan works, although when they have a publisher things might change. There’s a rumour that unpublished photos created before 1957 go out of copyright 70 years after creation regardless of the death of the author, but I haven’t seen any official confirmation of that yet.

]]> By: Gary Smailes http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-3574 Gary Smailes Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:52:21 +0000 http://www.investigations.4-lom.com/2007/04/03/great-war-flickr/#comment-3574 Gavin, This is a great idea. Web 2.0 applications, such as Flickr, have amazing potential. The limitations of these sites tend to be more because the designers have not thought to add the usability, rather than weakness in the technology. Have you considered the copyright implications of making the photographs freely accessible? How do you feel about web designer copying the photos and using them on their sites? Gavin,
This is a great idea.
Web 2.0 applications, such as Flickr, have amazing potential. The limitations of these sites tend to be more because the designers have not thought to add the usability, rather than weakness in the technology.
Have you considered the copyright implications of making the photographs freely accessible?
How do you feel about web designer copying the photos and using them on their sites?

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