Timeline for Can we use images of historic figures in our artwork?
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 18:06 | history | edited | Billy Kerr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 17:52 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | @HOY Images of people by an artist are certainly copyrightable, but copyrights do expire in time. But there are exceptions to copyright expiry - in particular one I can think of is the character Peter Pan whose author, long dead, gifted the copyright to a famous children's hospital in London. They pursue the copyright rigorously, and threaten to sue anyone using anything about Pet Pan without permission. So perhaps you should employ a lawyer. | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 17:46 | comment | added | HOY | I would definitly ask If I would have a lawyer, I know that people are not copyrigthable, that is why my question is related to people who died long long time ago, lets forget what they have published and where they lived, can their existanse can be considered as public domain, that is what I am looking for. | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 17:38 | history | answered | Billy Kerr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |