Has anyone seen this image elsewhere? Protocol when copyright holder of an image is unknown?
Dear Ecolog-Listers: An undergraduate working with me hopes to submit for publication her first paper by the end of 2015. The student would like to *use one image*: http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66498000/gif/_66498895_spidersilk.gif The paper in which it appeared can be seen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/0/21685308 I contacted the BBC, 'I&A Photo Library' <photolibra...@bbc.co.uk>; News website permission requests <news.website.permission.reque...@bbc.co.uk> and received this reply: "Our capacity to supply images found on the BBC website is limited by the quality of image available and potential copyright issues. The images seen online may be BBC copyright, but are often screen grabs that are unsuitable for high resolution reproduction. Online images that are not BBC copyright are often licensed by external agencies for limited reuse on the web. Unfortunately, on this occasion the Photo library is unable to confirm the origin of the requested images." Question # 1: Has anyone seen the image of interest elsewhere? The idea is that, perhaps elsewhere we detect who is the copyright owner and request permission. Question # 2: Does anyone know what is the protocol when copyright holder of an image is unknown? If you have answers for question # 1 or # 2, please, kindly send me a reply off the list to: blayjo...@gmail.com Gratefully, Jorge P.S. Apologies for potential duplicate emails. Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD blaypublishers.com 1. Positive experiences for authors of papers published in *LEB* http://blaypublishers.com/testimonials/ 2. Free examples of papers published in *LEB*: http://blaypublishers.com/category/previous-issues/. 3. *Guidelines for Authors* and page charges of *LEB*: http://blaypublishers.com/archives/ *.* 4. Want to subscribe to *LEB*? http://blaypublishers.com/subscriptions/ http://blayjorge.wordpress.com/ http://paleobiology.si.edu/staff/individuals/santiagoblay.cfm
