All music and photographs have two copyrights
With music the composer holds the copyright on the music AND the singer/band
holds the secondary copyright, subject to the first copyright.
With photography it's the same. The original photographer holds the copyright
on the picture. Anyone who has permission to copy the photograph and changes
it to digital form holds a secondary copyright. You may not copy the digital
photo and change it without permission.
If you violate either copyright, you may be sued for damages. One chain
store copy service was successfully sued for over 1,000,000 dollars for
letting someone copy a photograph without the photographers permission.
The Internet changes nothing. If you didn't take the original picture and
you don't have permission to use the picture, you can be sued for copying
Internet images.
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If you didn't take the photo with your camera -- it isn't yours to use without permission
To get permission to use a photo e-mail
or write
Captain Jack
2866 NW 82nd Ave
Ankeny, Iowa 50021
(515) 964-8500