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Posted By: davidcycleback

The owner of an early baseball card or photo no more owns the rights to the image
than someone who doesn't own it. However, it's best to ask and to give credit.
My guess is that the majority don't mind their images being used but would like
to be asked to be asked ('a girl likes to be asked') and to get credit in the
article or whatever-- which seems like a fair exchange.

If it's reproduction of an entire article or blog, then unauthorized and uncredited
reproduction would be illegal, as the writing is copyrighted to the author. For
quoting a blurb or quote or paragraph from Beckett or whatever, then giving credit
should suffice.

Now, for a big time book or magazine publisher doing a book on old cards, they may pay
you $$ for providing them high quality scans of images the need. Irrelevant to
the copyrights, they are paying you for the service of finding, scanning and forewarding
digital images. I've had photos published in books, and even in a documentary,
and it was always a matter of the editor or publisher contacting me to see if I
could get images of Red Sox stadium or photos by a photographer. So a New York
publisher would tell this thread that someone who can provide images for your
magazine or book or pay website is providing a real service that at least should
be recognized.