Image talk:Webster n02.jpg

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Here's the source of the image: [1].

By the way, it's also of a non-living person.

Yours, etc. --Ludvikus 11:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

And here's the footnote reference within this source:

    3.  Detail from a photograph of Nesta Bevan at age 22, reproduced from Spacious Days; an autobiography.
    Nesta H. Webster. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1949. Reprinted in Behind World Revolution, unnumbered page following p. 32.

And here's

    education@freemasonry.bcy.ca

the email of the Freemansory lodge which posts the image on the Web. Can anyone make the appropriate inquery as to the copyright of the Nesta posted image(s)? Ludvikus 11:27, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

I just sent these Freemasons the following email (CC:)

To Whom It May Concern:

I'm a Wikipedian. And I found your Web Page about the notorious Nesta H. Webster very useful.

It appears that you have the rights of Ms. Webster's photograph(s) from her (1949) autobiography, "Spacious Days."

Can you inform us Wikipedians as to the copyright status of the images of her? Can you assign them to us? Thank you.

Yours truly, User:Ludvikus (on the web)

Yours truly, --Ludvikus 11:41, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

This is actually a public domain image, because it was published before 1923. I've corrected the licensing. Natalie 00:39, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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Unfortunately, it's not a pre-1923. It comes rather from an about 1949 text, Webster's biography Spacious Days. I've written an email of inqery to the Freemasons who posted it on the web. He's my pasting of their response:

    Hi Ludivikus,
    
    No, we do not hold the rights to any photographs of Nesta H. Webster.
    
    "Spacious days : an autobiography" was published in 1949 by  
    Hutchinson & Co., London,. who merged with Century Publishing in 1985  
    to form Century Hutchinson, and was folded into Random House UK in 1989.
    
    I'm not aware of any subsequent reprint but assume that--if anyone  
    does--Random House still holds the rights.
    
    Cheers,
    Trevor

So the issue of copyright infringment remais. --Ludvikus 06:59, 24 September 2007 (UTC)