[Genealib] removing items from a index.

[Local History]

Related to this issue, in my other life as a community college archivist, I 
have been asked to remove photos from our online photo archives.  They are 
of staff people who were photographed by the official college photographer 
(so college owns copyright) and it was at a work event on work time.  The 
college does do signed releases for images in commercial type publications 
such as brochures, catalogs, marketing, etc. but nothing for a shot of the 
crowd at an event.  How have others dealt with similar problems?
Thanks,
Julie H. Bartlett
Archivist
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum
Hampshire Room for Local History
Forbes Library
20 West St.
Northampton, MA  01060
(413) 587-1014
jbartlett at forbeslibrary.org


"In spite of all the other facilities books are the principal permanent 
repository of knowledge and culture."
>From the syndicated newspaper column "Calvin Coolidge Says"   April 30, 1931

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Naukam" <lnaukam at mcls.rochester.lib.ny.us>
To: <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:06 PM
Subject: [Genealib] removing items from a index.


> It would seem to this layman that a person whose name appears in a 
> publicly
> accessible source such as a newspaper has no expectation of ex-post-facto
> privacy. It's in the newspaper, for crying out loud!
>
> Try to get the newspaper to do anything other than a correction. They 
> don't
> go in to their online sources and take out people's names. Where does it
> end? Ask Ancestry or other online newspaper providers what they do.
>
>
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