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I own the original full-length ambrotype of this one and only photographic image of Margaret "Peggy" Taylor, which is encircled with a gold frame that has the US flag and the US shield emblazoned on it.
The item was purchased in the 1990's in Washington. It was used once in my book America's First Families (2000) and in the catalogue of the National First Ladies Library (2003). Those are the only two places it was authorized for use. The NFLL was given permission to use it on its website with the explicit warning that it cannot be reproduced without permission.
Just as institutions such as Associated Press or United Press International or other photo libraries and reference sources may not be the artists and thus do not own the copyright, they own the original negative or the original item itself - and the right to license use of the image.
Wikipedia never sought permission to license the image. In fact, in its first appearance here, the image was willfully, falsely attributed to being in the collections of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photo Division.
It was in discussing the matter with a director of the LC, Prints and Photos, that she directly contacted Wikipedia and told them to remove the false attribution to its collection.
Great damage has been done to the private ownership and potential future licensing of the image to other publishing and online venues. Because Wikipedia has willfully and falsely claimed the right to simply post this image because the creator is dead long enough for the copyright to have expired while ignoring the issue of licensing infringement, the image has now been illegally appropriated by at least one highly commercial endeavor and even one sovereign nation's postal system, making Wikipedia directly complicit.
Besides this, the image as it appears on Wikipedia is an altered one - obviously without permission of the owner of the original art. The image as it appears here is simply a smaller detail of a full-body image. Yeagerm (talk) 09:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC) Yeagerm (talk) 10:02, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
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]." --Dynaflow babble 00:34, 19 February 2009 (UTC)Yeagerm - please email the Wikimedia Foundation's legal counsel at info-en-c@wikimedia.org. Please be clear whether you assert copyright ownership or merely ownership of the physical photograph and other related rights. Thank you. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 19:38, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
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