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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7591016, member: 19463&quot;]I regret so many here have trouble with the difference between the coin and an image of a coin.&nbsp; You can sell one without selling the other.&nbsp; I used to request that people who used my images send me a copy of the work in which it was used.&nbsp; I modified that when a very honest person sent me a $50 book that included one of my photos.&nbsp; I still have the coin and plan to own it until I die. I bought the coin in 1994 but it is quite possible that someone took a photo of it before that time.&nbsp; If so, they retain ownership and rights to their photo but have no rights to my image below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1307638[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a better example but it is not a coin.&nbsp; Many years ago I was in an antique/crafts shop that had many modern and fancy picture frames in various sizes.&nbsp; Most of them had a very low quality photo of a little boy dressed in a fashionably fancy suit. In the stock of the shop also was a daguerreotype taken c.1855-60 of that same boy.&nbsp; The frame maker had photographed the daguerreotype and printed copies of it to decorate his frames.&nbsp; The original photo, like all photos that old, is out of copyright.&nbsp; Technically, he could have copyrighted his photo of it but that gives him no rights to the photo I took of it.&nbsp; I doubt that person is still using that fuzzy old photo for his frames.&nbsp; I do wonder if any of them still exist.&nbsp; You can tell the difference between my photo and his.&nbsp; I will not mention how.&nbsp; If you want a cute kid photo to hang on your wall, I can allow you to use mine.&nbsp; If you own one of his frames that came with the image, I can not give you permission to copy it.&nbsp; I do wish I had a frame containing his copy of the image but I bought no frame.&nbsp; His cheapest frame cost several times what I was charged for the old piece of junk (in their mind) photo. </p><p><img src="https://a4.pbase.com/v3/88/582688/1/47057870.dagboysm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now a question:&nbsp; Do you consider any photo of the same thing to be in any way related to all other photos?&nbsp; How may of you have taken a photo of the Eifel Tower or Colosseum?&nbsp; Do you think you own any part of those structures or the 10,000 photos taken by other people of the same structure?&nbsp; You don&#039;t. Do you think all photos of the same coin are the same coin are the same?&nbsp; Some of my coins have been photographed many times and each is different.&nbsp; Many photographers configure their camera to record EXIF data on every shot that includes their name, contact info, date and exposure data.&nbsp; Some will use it against people who use their images without permission. Most of us who shoot coins allow anyone to use the images.&nbsp; Wedding/portrait photographers and not so liberal unless you contract separately to buy rights to the photos they took of you.&nbsp; For the record, anyone who bought a coin I once owned is hereby allowed use of my photo of that coin but I can not give you permission to use the photo taken by the dealer to whom I consigned the coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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