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5.10pm
23 July 2014
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Hi everyone…
How might I go about finding out if a photograph owned by my mother is original or whether it is a copy and is therefore already published?
Thanks,
JJ
8.52pm
10 August 2011
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I would start by finding out who allegedly took the picture. Since Lennon changed so much from year to year, you should be able to approximate when it was taken. Just about anyone who has taken pictures of Lennon at this point has published them if they are professional photographers. You can google those photographers and check out their pictures.
Of course you can also post it on this Forum; there are any number of amateur experts here who could probably instantly tell you if they recognize it!
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9.45pm
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17 December 2012
Offline In the end, the only way to know is to let people see it.
An unknown photograph would have value, but not as much as unknown photograph and negative.
However, even if a known photograph, it could still have value. For instance, The Beatles Book Monthly made available photographic prints of some of their pictures over the years, and those are collectable.
Without any idea of the image, or the size of it, it is impossible to say.
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5 February 2014
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Scan it for upload but watermark it before you post it.
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Mr. Kite, 1657219.43am
23 July 2014
Offline Great thanks for coming back to me. I will organise a scan and work out how to watermark it! It says in pencil on the back, “Beatles 1964” which should help date it!!
11.56am
23 July 2014
Offline Image 84 x 80 mm with 2 mm white border, on the reverse in pencil is written “The Beatles 1964” and printed or stamped with “D 225”. Unfortunately I cant work out how to upload it… Any help? The insert image button doesn’t have anyway of selecting an image, and if I type in its location on my computer it doesn’t do anything…
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1 May 2011
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@165721, to upload an image to a post for the forum
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To add pictures as attachments (jpg, gif or png file types) from your computer (it must be saved on your computer)
- Click on the ‘Attachment’ button which can be found immediately below the text reply box.
- Click on ‘Add files’ button at the bottom of the box that will appear.
- In the newly displayed box navigate to the location of the file you wish to on your computer/mobile device.
- Double click on the image and click the ‘Open’ button
- Click on the ‘Start Upload’ button. The image you have uploaded should automatically appear in the reply text box.
(taken from the How Do You Do It? The Ongoing Guide To Forum Functions, Features and Facets thread)
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Offline Oh, how adorable they all are! 
I wish @Ron Nasty were here to see this today.
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1 May 2011
Offline Its from the Odeon Cinema, Cheltenham November 1st 1963 – Joe’s entry, Wogblog.
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3.37pm
23 July 2014
Offline Wow good knowledge – it seems to be from a lower angle than the camera shots so doesn’t look like a still. Is there anyway of finding out who might have been shooting the event (stills) alongside the film crew at the time?
3.44pm
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1 May 2011
Offline Less knowledge more a google image search for ‘beatles interview 1963’ which brought up a still from the video clip above and the details which were shoved back in google for the websites. Just glad to help out a little.
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6.23pm
23 July 2014
Offline Insight nonetheless – I didn’t even register that they were in an interview!
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20 August 2013
Offline 165721 said
Insight nonetheless – I didn’t even register that they were in an interview!
I wondered they were in an interview since they look like they are holding microphones of some sort.
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1.43pm
23 July 2014
Offline So, the photo almost certainly is original (i.e. not a digital copy, but an original photo taken from a negative). What happens with copyright in the case, can the picture be copied, distributed, sold, etc. without knowing the photographer or where the negative might be, if it still exists?
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20 August 2013
Offline @parlance, perhaps you can help answer 165721’s question.
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8 November 2012
Offline Thanks, Ahhh Girl. It depends on the country of course, but in the US, the copyright belongs to the author (or the wire service, if the rights were sold), and that is the case whether you can find the photographer or not. Generally the duration of the copyright lasts 50 or 70 years in most of the world (more info at wiki).
You might try a reverse image search engine on your photo (click on the camera icon and upload) to see if you can find the creator.
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1657215.45pm
23 July 2014
Offline Thanks parlance – reverse searches have not thrown up anything similar, so as far as I am aware no one has published it, or at least widely enough to be picked up by Google. Admittedly I didn’t go through the whole billion returns 
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8 November 2012
Offline Off topic, but it’s funny this came up today – a photographer is fighting for the rights to a selfie a monkey took with his camera.
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