My daughter went to Wall Mart yesterday to get some copies made of a picture of my dad, his brothers and sisters (my aunts and uncles), my grandfather and grandmother (who I never met, she died long before I was born and probably the only picture of her that exists.) They made the copies then asked her if she had the copyright for the picture. Of course she didn't, nobody does, it's our f'ing family!!! So they put the pictures in the shredder, not the original, that's at home, she had a copy of it on a CD. WTF is with that?

I'm going there this afternoon or tomorrow and if they tell me the same thing, you guys will probably be able to hear me if you open your windows.

All She needed to do was say yes. Their looking for people who go to photo studio's and pay to have pictures made and then swing over to walmart for reprints at a much cheaper price. If the Picture has any kind of studio logo in a corner it would be hard to prove ownership. All you'd have to do is to use picture software to remove the logo and they tell them it was a family photo.

If you own the picture and it wasn't taken at a studio (who would own the copyright) then you do own the copyright to that picture, especially if it was shot by a family member.

I myself was question on pictures I took outdoors and all I told them was that I shot them myself with my digital camera. Thus I own the copyright to pictures I took. So don't be downloadin' any pictures I post, SEE!!!

It was taken at a studio but there's no mark on it. It was taken in 1929 and my dad is the only one left alive in the photo and he was 11 at the time. Kind of hard to say that I was the one that took it.

Buy a scanner and quit shopping at Wal-Mart.

And if Wal-Mart blithely made reprints of (current) studio photographs, professional photographers would be screaming and trying to give Wal-Mart bad PR.

Blame the idiotic copyright laws.

Well, my daughter went back with her boyfriend and she was told that she either has to get a release from the photographer or show proof that he's dead. While her boyfriend was loudly trying to persuade them, a friend of my daughter's that works there pulled her off to the side and said she'd copy it the next time she's working alone, she's going to call when she is. F'in jerks!!!

Just sounds like some total tool trying to exercise what little power he has.
Always cracks me up when minimum wage earners pull that.

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Originally posted by Mr.Yuck:
Just sounds like some total tool trying to exercise what little power he has.
Always cracks me up when minimum wage earners pull that.

whatever you say CalYuck

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Originally posted by Mr. Yow:
Buy a scanner and quit shopping at Wal-Mart.

Amen. I avoid that dump like the plague. Any time someone wants to see the depths that humanity sinks to, just take a trip to CrapMart.

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Originally posted by Snoozebutton:
Well, my daughter went back with her boyfriend and she was told that she either has to get a release from the photographer or show proof that he's dead. While her boyfriend was loudly trying to persuade them, a friend of my daughter's that works there pulled her off to the side and said she'd copy it the next time she's working alone, she's going to call when she is. F'in jerks!!!

Store Manager's always hear me, if the guy wasn't a Manager I wouldn't waste my time with him.

BTW - if there's no copyright from the studio on the photo, nail the guy, have him show you where it's copyrighted.

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Originally posted by iowacheese:

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Originally posted by Mr.Yuck:
Just sounds like some total tool trying to exercise what little power he has.
Always cracks me up when minimum wage earners pull that.

whatever you say CalYuck

Snooze,

I had a similar thing happen. There is some joke of a law out there so the other company can make money off of it. A-holes....

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Originally posted by Herschel:

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Originally posted by Mr. Yow:
Buy a scanner and quit shopping at Wal-Mart.

Amen. I avoid that dump like the plague. Any time someone wants to see the depths that humanity sinks to, just take a trip to CrapMart.

I third this idea. The gas you will save will pay for the scanner in one use!
I haven't been to a Wal-Mart in ages. And now that I've heard about this, I don't think I'll be spending any money there, thanks. Idots.

Well, I work with copyright laws, I understand that they have to enforce the copyright laws, or they'd be in trouble on that count. And I know that half the teenage kids who work there couldn't tell you what war was in the 1860's vs. the 1960's, much less recognize the era a picture was from, but when they didn't realize my "professionally posed" photo of my Civil War ancestor in his uniform with his family was out of copyright, I thought that was a little over the top.

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Originally posted by Legacy: And I know that half the teenage kids who work there couldn't tell you what war was in the 1860's vs. the 1960's.....

Sad but true.

Anyhow, we found out their policy is to reject anything that might be copyrighted regardless of how old it is. We ended up going to a professional studio in town and he told us that the copyright expires after 40 years and he was more than happy to make some copies for us. He did a really nice job and didn't charge an arm and leg so yeah, screw Wall Mart!!!