Where to buy old stock photos
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My work is editing a location video of westminster, and we're looking to buy old stock photos, or photos of paintings and tapestries that show historical figures- (specifically, images of any paintings/ tapestrys that show edward the confessor, and photos of paintings of the old palace of westminster)
Unfortuntly I cant just pull stuff of the internet- this is for a paid job, so we need to buy the rights to the images
And im completely stuck as to where to look! All the stock video and photo websites Ive used before, just dont have anything historical.
Can anyone suggest anywhere?
Unfortuntly I cant just pull stuff of the internet- this is for a paid job, so we need to buy the rights to the images
And im completely stuck as to where to look! All the stock video and photo websites Ive used before, just dont have anything historical.
Can anyone suggest anywhere?
Edited by Fordo on Monday 26th January 15:25
this is interesting:
"The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain"."
Did a little more research:
In the US, a photo of a painting, has no copyright, as long as the photo has no original content.
in the uk, its a little more ambigious:
UK
not OK. Most British academics and practitioners agree that the UK courts would uphold copyright protection on a carefully lit and exposed photograph, taken from a distance, which aims to be a faithful reproduction of a 2D work of art. The level of originality required by the UK courts is low, and there is likely to be sufficient originality in the photographer's selection of lighting arrangements, exposure, filters and so on for a new copyright to be generated. Here is what the principal copyright practitioner's text, Copinger & Skone James, has to say:
In terms of what is original for the purpose of determining whether copyright subsists in a photograph, the requirement of originality is low and may be satisfied by little more than the opportunistic pointing of the camera and the pressing of the shutter button. There seems to be no reason of principle why there should be any distinction between the photograph which is the result of such a process and a photograph which is intended to reproduce a work of art, such as a painting or another photograph.
Of course, a raw unenhanced scan or photocopy of a PD illustration in an old book is OK, as purely mechanical copying cannot even in the UK create a new copyright.
"The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain, and that claims to the contrary represent an assault on the very concept of a public domain"."
Did a little more research:
In the US, a photo of a painting, has no copyright, as long as the photo has no original content.
in the uk, its a little more ambigious:
UK
not OK. Most British academics and practitioners agree that the UK courts would uphold copyright protection on a carefully lit and exposed photograph, taken from a distance, which aims to be a faithful reproduction of a 2D work of art. The level of originality required by the UK courts is low, and there is likely to be sufficient originality in the photographer's selection of lighting arrangements, exposure, filters and so on for a new copyright to be generated. Here is what the principal copyright practitioner's text, Copinger & Skone James, has to say:
In terms of what is original for the purpose of determining whether copyright subsists in a photograph, the requirement of originality is low and may be satisfied by little more than the opportunistic pointing of the camera and the pressing of the shutter button. There seems to be no reason of principle why there should be any distinction between the photograph which is the result of such a process and a photograph which is intended to reproduce a work of art, such as a painting or another photograph.
Of course, a raw unenhanced scan or photocopy of a PD illustration in an old book is OK, as purely mechanical copying cannot even in the UK create a new copyright.
Edited by Fordo on Monday 26th January 15:44
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