Question about Old Illustration's copyrights.

IGLOOGREENHOUSE · Sep 15, 2012

So this is a very strange question.
You might have heard about thematic appreception tests, it's a psychological tool that uses pictures to interpret personlity, my question is, what would be the easiest way to find out the specific rights to specific pictures that are used in TAP's? Let's take this one: http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1300000/Example-of-Thematic-Apperception-Test-psychology-1310980-305-400.gif
So that's a TAP picture, but I don't know what it's origin is. Is It Public Domain? Owned by the APA? I don't know. Depending on their domain, I'd like to use them as illustrations in a book of mine. How can I find out, in order to avoid breaking copyright laws?

BenPanced · Sep 15, 2012

There's an attributed source on the page, beneath the illustration. Research led me to publishers Prentice-Hall, so you'll need to start there.

veinglory · Sep 15, 2012

They come from various 1930s magazine sources and nothing places them automatically in the public domain. I suspect you will find at least some of them are under copyright.

Allen R. Brady · Sep 15, 2012

Even if a old book or illustration is public domain, a reproduction of it is likely still protected. If you make your own scan or photograph of a 17th century engraving, for example, you hold the copyright to that specific image. Anyone else who wants to use it either needs to make their own scan, or license yours.

Kriven · Sep 15, 2012

Allen R. Brady said:
Even if a old book or illustration is public domain, a reproduction of it is likely still protected. If you make your own scan or photograph of a 17th century engraving, for example, you hold the copyright to that specific image. Anyone else who wants to use it either needs to make their own scan, or license yours.

Actually, unaltered scans are not subject to copyright:

http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/who-owns-the-copyright-scans-public-domain-works/

Question about Old Illustration's copyrights.

IGLOOGREENHOUSE

BenPanced

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veinglory

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Allen R. Brady

Kriven