Are there any other active slide collectors here on Trainboard? I recently started buying original slides for some articles and books I'm working on. Anybody else out there currently collect slides?
I am not one, but sure do see a lot of duplicates offered for sale on eBay. What kind of book are you working on, or is too early to reveal? Harold
Not really. I used to seek a few of favorite subjects, from my chosen RR. But have not done so in years. Boxcab E50
I had been collecting Frisco-related slides, but have not done so for some time. For model railroad purposes, I've been referring to George Elwood's Fallen Flags site, as well as the Frisco websites.
Yes, I've been taking slides of all my railfanning trips since Oct, 1976. My friends & I have "slide shows" every other week, been doing it for over 30 years- Potato Chips, Pop, and popcorn and a lot of good laughs!
I meant people that buy others' slides to add to their collection. I, too, have been shooting slides of my own travels but sometimes it's nice to supplement your own material with that of other photographers.
Brian, I have bought some from Tom Gildersleeve, and believe he still deals in them, and got some samples from Al Chione. Aside from that, like the others, I have my own from 1961 to present. Kodachromes still look good. Back in the day when all the photographers took black and white roster shots, they too traded photos and negs. I have two by Stan Kistler and Harold Vollrath that had to have been taken seconds apart. Either they were standing next to each other or traded photos. I have bought a lot of prints from Mr. Vollrath, and a few from Stan Kistler and Bob Spaugh. :teeth:
I've always wondered about this...when you buy an original slide does the copyright of that slide transfer to the new owner? Meaning the new owner can do what he wants with it. For example you use the photo in your book and also give credit to the original photographer...can the photographer come back to seek damages? I get the feeling this is not the case (copyright tranfers with the sale of an original document)...and that the photographer probably has to give some kind of written transfer, stating the copyright now belongs to the new owner. I'm not sure about this but have always wondered. Since you mentioned buying for the purposes of publishing an article and all.
Dick Wallin used to have boxes of original slides for sale. I bought a few that way. But really couldn't afford too many. Boxcab E50
The original person who takes the photos own the copyright even if he "sells" it. Selling only gives you the right to use it for your personal effect. Of course if one buys the original slide and the photographer doesn't have copies I don't know how he or she can claim copyright as he has no records of ever taking the photo!
They can not. In the case of a slide, if you sell the original without disclaimers about its ownership, it becomes the buyer's ownership. The new owner owns the copyright. If you keep a copy, then you can retain copyright.
I was thinking the same thing...that if the owner sells the original how would he claim he even took the picture? He really couldn't. I found this at the copyright website: A “transfer of copyright ownership” is an assignment, mortgage, grant of an exclusive license, transfer by will or intestate succession, or any other change in the ownership of any or all the exclusive rights in a copyright, whether or not it is limited in time or place of effect. It does not include a nonexclusive license. A transfer of exclusive rights, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance (for example, contract, bond, or deed) or a note or memorandum of the transfer is in writing and is signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or the owner’s duly authorized agent. So it makes me wonder about those that list their original slides for sale and state that the copyright stays with them. While this paragraph from the government copyright pages suggests this...how would they prove it? Maybe they are secretly keeping a copy?
A lawyer might argue that the acceptance of money is an instrument of conveyance in the case of an original slide with no copies retained.
When posting slides I bought, I place a ©John Barnhill Collection on them. That way you know I didn't take it. Also I will have the photographers name on it if known.
