| parrthenon@cs.com 2005-05-25, 12:32 am |
| COPYRIGHT OF PHOTOS
<I also received a threatening letter from Chess Cafe threatening to
sue me for unauthorized publication of a photo of Raymond Weinstein
which is on my website at http://www.samsloan.com/winste.htm . This
letter from Chess Cafe said that that photo was the property of Edward
Winter. I wrote back that that photo had been published in Chess Review
magazine in 1960 and I doubt that Edward Winter owns the publication
rights to Chess Review. Nothing more was heard on this matter.> Sam
Sloan
The Cafe is tried a legal ploy, and it is incumbent on all of
us NOT to seek permission from them to publish nearly all of the photos
that appear there.
Sam Sloan is correct that the vast majority of these photos are
not the property of either Edward Winter or Hanon Russell. Many
appeared in old issues of Chess Review or the American Chess Bulletin
and the copyrights have, in any event, expired long ago.
Mr. Russell and Mr. Winter had this idea of building a legal case
for ownership based upon requests made by users.
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