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Message:: [QUOTE="IdesOfMarch01, post: 2973648, member: 39084"]And this exactly illustrates my point.  Marie-Lan Nguyen owns the copyright to the photo -- not to the sculpture -- and has given her permission to reproduce the photograph with the proper attribution.  The right to reproduce a photograph is up to the discretion of the owner of that photograph's copyright. You'll note that a court of law had to decide whether the "Bridgeman art library" photographs were copyrightable by Bridgeman.  This is where there can be some subtlety in copyright law -- i.e., under what circumstances is the photograph itself not copyrightable?  There may be some photos that are so generic that they cannot be deemed copyrightable, but common law copyrights apply a priori to photographs, and unless this is challenged in court, to assert that the photographs you post in a thread aren't subject to copyright is simply wrong. We all violate these copyrights every day on this site.  I do, you do, maybe DougSmit doesn't since he takes all his own coin photos, but most of us do.  Our use may be permissible under "fair use" law but maybe not.  But certainly, if a photograph comes with a requirement to attribute the photographer's name, then the proper thing to do is to include the attribution.[/QUOTE]