[Sca-cooks] Copyright infringement - on topic for SCA writers

[Elaine Koogler]

* *For publications in the SCA, we follow very strict rules regarding the
copyright of images.  We require a signed permission form from the owner of
the work, in the case you cited, probably a museum.  Do not ever think that
just because it's reproduced on the web that it's ok to use it without
permission.  If it's in a book, you will need the permission of the author
or the publisher.  Even if it's an object in a museum and you take a picture
of it, you must have permission from the museum.  Often this can be
difficult...but one ploy that has been suggested to me is to point out to
the museum that by permitting use of their image in an SCA publication with
an accompanying credit will help publicize their museum and its collection.


Finally, I asked, once upon a time, about making a drawing of an
illustration from a book or of an object in a museum...I was told that you
still need permission. However, if I were to, say, make a drawing of a
generic cooking pot using ideas I obtained from observing this type of
object in museums and books, that would be ok and would not need permission.


Do remember that, if a friend makes drawings or takes photos that you use,
you must have their written permission as well.

I do not know how other copyright lawyers would interpret the law, but this
is what we who publish things in the SCA are required to do.

Kiri (who edits *The Compleat Anachronist*)

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Daniel & Elizabeth Phelps <
dephelps at embarqmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Was written:
>
>
>  If we quote a book when we write your own thing we add a footnote. As I
>> understand it, if we add an image we must have the written permission of
>> author. So I want to include a photo of a Goya's garfish painting - lets
>> just say - I must write to Paco, no? Does anyone have his email address in
>> heaven?
>>
>
> Into dust and under dust to lie
> sans wine sans singer sans song (Omar by way of Fitzgerald)
>
> With all do respect to Paco it is my understanding that once across the
> veil intellectual rights either descend to one's heirs or one's works
> becomes public domain.  Thus I would contact his heirs and gain permission
> there of. Of course you could take your own picture and then it would be
> your intellectual property to do with as you see fit.   That is unless the
> image that you imaged is in itself protected like Mickey Mouse or Elvis.
> Mirrors, mirrors we descend into a hall of mirrors don't we?
>
> Daniel
>
>
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