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Originally Posted by Kawika
Clayton: He did the same with my T210 Stengel and my D304 Cobb. Not sure if he took the scans from the auction page before I owned them or from my ImageEvent site but am guessing the latter. (If it was from IE he would have to have gotten the link from Net54 which means he probably lurks here. Hi, Rawoysterman  ). The guy states clearly on his eBay sales pages that he is selling reprints and I don't have any copyright on the images, so technically he is doing nothing wrong as far as I'm concerned but it still creeps me out a little bit all the same. |
This is just my understanding, and I'm sure one of the copyright lawyers could provide more detailed analysis on this, but if you scan something that is in the public domain (like an old baseball card image...), you don't own the copyright to the image, but you do own the copyright to the new scan. You can deny permission to use that scan. (
Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., 191 F.2d 99 (2nd Cir. 1951))
I'd guess Ebay would be more quick to take down an auction for copyright violation than for misrepresenting reprints...