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Good day everyone!

We have an exhibit here where the images are very old, the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Royal Geographic Society currently owns the original glass plates. You can buy high quality scans from their website. Does anyone have any knowledge on or experience with public domain and how it works? Can we print the images ourselves from images available online if they are public domain? Or would the photos still be under copyright? Any information or resources will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much! Have a great day!

Regards,

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Brittney Diesbourg
Education Specialist
Detroit Zoo - Detroit Zoological Society
Royal Oak, MI
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If the images are older than 1923 they are in the public domain. so you can protect them and show them without copyright fear. the organization may charge for giving you a hi-result file of course but if you can just use lo-res found online you should be fine.

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Rebecca Dupont
Arlington VA

Original Message:
Sent: 11-07-2016 02:02 PM
From: Brittney Diesbourg
Subject: Image Copyright

Good day everyone!

We have an exhibit here where the images are very old, the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Royal Geographic Society currently owns the original glass plates. You can buy high quality scans from their website. Does anyone have any knowledge on or experience with public domain and how it works? Can we print the images ourselves from images available online if they are public domain? Or would the photos still be under copyright? Any information or resources will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much! Have a great day!

Regards,

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Brittney Diesbourg
Education Specialist
Detroit Zoo - Detroit Zoological Society
Royal Oak, MI
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