The law is 50 years. If the photo is older than 50 years, force the issue with them. I had to do this with Walgreens. I was not happy with the employee and all the staff and management of that Walgreens new I was very unhappy. The next time I went into Walgreens, the manager came up to me and told me he was once again sorry for the employee and had instructed him and all other photo center employees about the laws pertaining to copyright.
Good luck. Glen Ballard ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=3AV63La ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Almquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Why save copies of census records? I am trying to go both ways on archiving these old hard copies - digitizing as well as paper print outs. Digital is wonderful, but I deem it to be potentially "fragile". If the home made CDs and DVDs have such a short projected life, who is going to copy my files to new media every few years after I am unable. Who will migrate this data to new formats as the digital world continues to change almost daily? I'm not concerned about the public records, such as census schedules, which become easier to access all the time, but rather the one-of-a-kind personal items like old letters, bibles, family diaries, and photographs. These hard copies will continue to fill my file cabinets. In order to "back-up" these hardcopies, I share copies (digital & printed) with any of my families that show an interest, as well as keeping the more important originals in the bank safe deposit box ($120 per year) and use photo copies in my home files. My biggest problem at the present, is to find a way to make prints of the old photos that I have obtained as digital images. Wally World just dashed my plans to use their self service photo print shop ($1.52 for 8"x10") as they say the photos are still copyright protected. The family photos I was trying to print were taken from 1873 to about 1900. They said I must get a copyright release from the photographer even though there is no evidence of who that was. I really do hate to print these at home as the useful life is not nearly as long as those printed "professionally". I DO love redundancy! Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "John S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:24 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Why save copies of census records? > Suppose you have a magnificent genealogy file: all your ancestors going > back 300 years identified, described and sourced; all yours sources and > pictures scanned and digitized. You've stored everything electronically > and backed it up six times. Everything is organized and labelled > meticulously. Tomorrow you get hit by a bus. Your executor goes through > your belongings and finds this box marked "GENEALOGY" full of labelled > CD's and gives it your granddaughter. She has no interest in genealogy, > so puts the box in a garage storage cabinet. 50 years from now her son is > going through her belongings and finds the box. He's a genealogist. He's > excited! He has visions of all those brickwalls crashing down. He opens > the box. He has no idea what all these thin, shiny disks are. Maybe > early 21st century coasters? > > It would be like finding a box of piano rolls and only having a DVD player > to play your music. > > The fact is that 300 years ago, the best way to save data for posterity > was on paper, and that is still the best way today, unfortunately. Don't > throw away those paper files! > > John S. Adams > Hermosa Beach, CA > "Just another day in paradise." > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:28 PM > Subject: [LegacyUG] Why save copies of census records? > > >> Since I have been using Legacy to attach census images to people >> appearing in the census, I am wondering if there is any longer a need for >> a hard copy record. What do you think? 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