Borg sues Steam Scenes

I have to post this as an example of Nils' phototgraphy. Maybe some of you own this coffee table photo book that he produced several years ago, titled "Classic North American Steam." He shoots from the shadow side a lot, and the quality of his photogaphy is just super. I scanned this, the cover of that book. Photo by Nils Huxtable, from the collection of Jim Fitzgerald. This is nowhere near the whole photo. Wouldn't fit in my scanner!

 

YES!

I wish I had my stuff out, then I could join in on that endeavor!!!

 

Matt - Patchem to GN?

 

If I post a photo of one of my HO Big Boys, is Ugly Puke going to try to collect some royalty from me?

How can I trace today's owner of photos I was sent back around 1987/88 that may or may not have been offered to some book to be published after I got them?

I was told it costs around $1,500.00 to get a copyright for EACH photo I have. Mom did not save all the negatives and I have even lost some that I took. So how do we be "safe"?
There have been a number of times I have had a photo someone really wanted, but I was afraid to post it, because some have been scanned from very old out of print antique books.

So what do we do?

 

Thanks guys for all your input on this matter. I was pretty shocked when the shop owner told me about the law suit. Luckily I had received my 2006 SP Steam Scenes calendar back in July. I have been buying this calendar for many years, and if this one was to go away, that would leave us SP fans with just one calendar! I have however been making my own SP calendar for about 10+ years now. Lets see Borg try to take that away from me.
Here is a picture of the only patched SP locomotives I like to see. This picture is way before borg. Patch done by SP employees, on an SP locomotive.
Thom

 

How about this patch job ? ? ?

 

Nice patch Carl, very nice.

 

There's more than one way to skin a cat.....
Funny thing is I had planned this patch long before the license thing came up.

 

Yeah! Carl and John both have great patches. We should send them to the Borg.

 

fitz what, you don't like my X UP U50s? Fine, I'll go sulk alone in the dark and sue you later for some kind of intangible damages.

 

Sorry, Steve, I didn't mean to leave you out.

TRAINBOARD NEW YORK CENTRAL FRATERNITY OF ONE

 

Good question. I must email him and get him to join "my" fraternity.

 

Just to clarrify this, SP was hurting, so they hired a few execs from UP. These execs then decided to buy (yes Buy) UP, but since they were UP execs, they kept the UP name for several reasons, one being name reputation in the northern areas. In all realities, the UP of today is techincally the SP, but with UP management.

 

fitz - ok, sniff, i feel better now.

Jay - um, is that true about how SP became UP?

 

yes, a very interesting story with even Stranger history behind it. You see, the SP was Bought out by it's cousin the CP (that's Central Pacific for the Canucks ), and due to brand recognition, they kept the SP name on the SP lines and the CP name on the CP lines. Slowly they phased out the CP name and kept the SP name.

Along comes the SP, in a world of hurt and wanting to improve thier company, so they Hire a bunch of execs from UP to run the company. After awhile, they decide that in order to Improve SP, they would need to buy a similar sized railroad. So they started the talks with UP, and bought them out and decided to keep the UP name as a comprimise.

It's kind of Ironic actually, since all 3 lines were originally owned by the same man, now they've basically returned to their roots.

 

Thanks Jay - Nice to know.
Well out of all that we get a nice "friendly" online rivalry with UP types and something to complain about.