P3D Re: Where are Keystone and U&U Negatives:

[Steve Berezin <sbere@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Wageman wrote:
> 
> From: MDRobb <MDRobb@xxxxxxx>
> 
> >I was wondering why there are not any reproduction stereoviews,
> >using original negatives, for sale out there.  Do these negatives
> >no longer exists?  If they do exist, are they still copyright
> protected?
> >Would it be to costly to reproduce these cards even if the
> >negatives did exists?
> >Just curious.
> 
> The Keystone-Mast collection is at the University of California,
> Riverside, if I remember correctly. 

Yes they are.  The SCSC club had an outing their earlier this year.

 If the negatives were originally
> made before approximately 1920, they would now be in the public domain
> under current copyright law, assuming they were "works made for hire",
> that copyright was properly filed for and subsequently renewed, and
> various other legal technicalities.
> 
> The tough part would be getting access, I'd think.  

You can make reproductions.  However the fee for commercial use I think
is about $50 a negative.  Steve Thomas is the curator there and he has a
rate card he sends out.  They also may be at the site
(http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/km/stereo/page0.html).

Most collections of
> that sort have restrictions on use (such as "scholarly research") which
> might stand in the way of a commercial enterprise.  And then, of course,
> there's the question of who'd you sell them to.  Is there enough of a
> market to justify the time and expense?  Personally I think they'd be a
> fascinating item to have, especially if they were "real photograph"
> (i.e. photo print) reproductions.
> 
>      -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)

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