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dolorsofmary
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Posted: Feb 13 2010 at 10:19am \| IP Logged

I have many professional photos of my dear son who is now 4.5 yrs old. The company I used to take most of the photos no longer has copies most of them on their website. I have copies of course, but on paper alone. So I would like to scan them all onto a flash drive to keep in the safe deposit box in case God forbid we have a fire.

So do you think the above, if I carry it through, is a sin?

Now let's press my luck even further. Suppose once I have them all scanned and at some later date I want to scrapbook these scanned images? So if I scrapbook them at home (with scrapbooking software that I have purchased and (I always outsource the printing to viovio.com) very very inexpensive. And I make it private and secure and password protected so no one can see what I did and then I delete what I did after it is printed so there are no issues of copyright for anything used, is this a sin also?

I have inquired with 2 of the places about getting the photos put onto a cd and they said that of the photos they still have it would be $250.00 per session. Ouch! That is cost prohibitive.

Please let me know what you think especially if you are in the biz and know first hand what the rule is. Thank you!

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Posted: Feb 13 2010 at 11:10am \| IP Logged

I am not in the business, but I did used to nanny for a family whose parents both did photography. Not that this makes me an expert of course.

From what I remember, the point is whether or not you are making money or "saving" money by doing it; are you copying them to give as gifts to people when you could have ordered a larger package at the studio? Then it's a sin.

If the photos are no longer available for them to make re-prints of AND you are only using them for yourself, it is perfectly fine.

So scanning them for a safe deposit box is fine.

I would definitely not take my word as final on the scrapbook use.

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Posted: Feb 13 2010 at 1:55pm \| IP Logged

I'm a freelance writer.

I think making "in case of fire" backups is fine. You can do this with CDs and software as well - you just can't distribute them to anyone else.

I'm wondering - did the photographer get rid of the negatives? That might make a difference in how you can use the images you have - I'm not sure.

I am not sure about the scrapbooking. Hopefully someone with more experience in that area of copyright law will be able to help you.

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