18-12-2020, 04:22 PM
Owning a copy of a photo does not allow anything more than you possessing that image. Copyright will still reside with the creator unless made as part of their employment in which case it will rest with employer unless specifically stated otherwise. The copyright will last for the lifetime of the creator plus x years and then expire unless passed to or acquired by an other party. There are various exemptions for review, teaching and research. The copyright may well have been sold if it was commercial work. It is unlikely that anyone would complain in the case of non-commercial use like the archive but you never know. Just to clear up a popular mis-understanding it does not have to be marked ‘copyright’ as that is applied automatically at production.