Dear Uncle, I think the "friend" and whoever is selling your picture will owe you at a minimum a royalty payment for each sale or a negotiated price for the whole deal. Most reputable companies that use images insist that the owner of the picture is the copyright holder. So the manufacturer and the distributor could also be liable. In this case you might find a cease and desist letter will be effective. Mike -----Original Message----- From: pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stein Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:45 PM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Uneasy Question From Nervous Uncle Dear Friends, I have selected this list as the one likely to give a quick professional response. I have an uneasy question. I recently took large format pictures of my friends dressed in fantasy gear up at a deserted railway tunel. All went well, we did not burn down the tunnel, the pictures are delightful. No money charged for anything - film and photography my treat. I made up a quick batch of 12 8 x 10's and gave them to twelve of the participants a week ago. Everyone happy. So happy that several of the recipients propose taking one of the pictures to a commercial firm that recopies it onto an A3 size digital paper, glues it onto composition board, and die cuts out a jigsaw puzzle of it. It is packaged and the customer is charged for it. My images were gifts, and as I read it, while the recipients can display the prints in their homes, I own the copyright and unless I relinquish this further copying, publication, or commercial use of these images runs foul of some sort of law. But which law, and who in this chain is making themselves liable for complaint? Before I make a fool of myself and/or alienate my friends, can some one clarify this for me? I hasten to add I write from Australia, not North America. But advice from anywhere is welcome.... Uncle Dick ============================================================================ ================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.