Timeline for Permissions and copyright for a figure from an unavailable source
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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| Jul 1, 2018 at 21:13 | comment | added | Ben I. | Did you reach out to the Ph.D. thesis author? Even if the author is not the copyright holder, presumably he or she sought out legal permissions at the time, and may still have a record of an email address or a name to reach out to. If you did reach out already, the question should be amended to make this clearer. | |
| Jul 1, 2018 at 11:47 | history | edited | aeismail | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2018 at 22:45 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 30, 2018 at 22:23 | answer | added | SecretAgentMan | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 5, 2018 at 15:57 | comment | added | Oleg Lobachev | I'd also suggest to redraw the figure. You should still mention the original source, but this might avoid many problems. | |
| Dec 8, 2017 at 21:16 | comment | added | TJK | I'd consider to redraw the figure and/or reference the thesis, which is traceable. | |
| Sep 15, 2017 at 22:11 | comment | added | hnltraveler | What type of figure is it? Is it a chart, graph or table that merely conveys data (not copyrightable in the US), or something with more creative intervention? | |
| Jun 29, 2017 at 12:18 | comment | added | Bas Jansen | @O.R.Mapper I said could, and the name that the OP edited into the question gives some indication already as there currently are two companies using that name (UK, India) but both seem to be to recent to be the potential copyright holder. Obviously, if the name was something like you mentioned then it wouldn't work (hence again, the could). | |
| Jun 28, 2017 at 9:34 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper |
@BasJansen: You mean something like www.weprovidefreewebspace.com/users/~smith598?
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| Jun 28, 2017 at 9:19 | comment | added | Bas Jansen | @O.R.Mapper The name of the website could already give a good indication of which company it was that likely had the copyright, from there on we could either track if the original company was bought (including copyrights) or if it went defunct. In the case the company went defunct we'd have to look at the copyright law of said country. | |
| Jun 27, 2017 at 12:16 | comment | added | Hjan | I will survive without using the picture, but since the situation can occur to other people to. I was hoping that some one could give some more insight on the use of the "fair use" clause of copyright, for such a situation. (even in different countries). Some times when an old book or conference paper is not accessible, people also use secondary sources in their references. Maybe something similar procedure could apply to figures? I am not worried about getting sued for using the figure. i just wanted to know what proper "research" ethics are in such a case. | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 22:39 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/879469075856056320 | ||
| Jun 26, 2017 at 21:19 | comment | added | Buttonwood | @Hjan For future reference, a snapshot by the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) may be triggered by the users, too. Some addresses are working better than others, e.g. web.archive.org/web/20000815222443/http://www.columbia.edu:80/… | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 17:15 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | How important is this figure? Are you able to reproduce it or do you really truly need the original figure? | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 15:37 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @BasJansen: If the website where the figure was originally taken from is gone (and with it, probably all traces that lead to the original author), how is the OP supposed to know who was the original copyright holder and what country they were from? As it stands, I read the question as: "I want to use possibly copyrighted resource X, but the copyright holder of X cannot be determined. How to proceed?" | |
| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:35 | history | edited | Hjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:29 | history | edited | Hjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:27 | history | edited | user2390246 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:23 | history | edited | Hjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:07 | comment | added | Bas Jansen | The question as it stands can not be answered untill you add the following information: Who had the copyright and what country were they legally based in. | |
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| Jun 26, 2017 at 13:02 | history | asked | Hjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |