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Copyright of old photos

wklee
Dec. 19, 2025
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    wklee
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    Dec. 19, 2025, 12:52 a.m. Dec. 19, 2025, 12:52 a.m.
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    I had found old photos of my Dad from his schooldays.

    It’d been published in a Commemorative book. Who owns the Copyright. Some of those photos they might be over 70 years old, been posted in Facebook, where I found them originally.

    I’ve contacted the Publisher of the book.

    Here’s the web version of the Book.

    fliphtml5.com/sqpus/oobq/Back_To_Raffles_At_Bras_Basah/

    Some of these photos have been preserved in Singapore’s National Archives.

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    AlanSh
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    Dec. 19, 2025, 9:39 a.m. Dec. 19, 2025, 9:39 a.m.
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    Copyright on your Dad's old school photos generally belongs to the original photographer, or their estate if deceased, for the creator's life plus 70 years (in the UK/US). Unless he's signed it over - which the publisher should know.

    Alan

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    wklee
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    Dec. 19, 2025, 10:12 a.m. Dec. 19, 2025, 10:12 a.m.
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    @AlanSh has written:

    Copyright on your Dad's old school photos generally belongs to the original photographer, or their estate if deceased, for the creator's life plus 70 years (in the UK/US). Unless he's signed it over - which the publisher should know.

    Alan

    Thanks, plus it appears that his name has been misspelled in the book. It’s from 2019. I haven’t informed the publisher.

    It may have been one off print run for the Occasion of Singapore Bicentennial in 2019.

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