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yes, I think they probably were :) just found this site which explains heaps about photograph copyright. I found it REALLY interesting Legal Pitfalls in Taking or Using Photographs of...

Please look at what suebleu has written on this site. Robert Hartley Uren was born in Christchurch, NZ c1883. Andrew Wilson

By the way that mug was given to me by my colleagues when I retired. (Do you think they were trying to tell me something?)

Well, since you were the original artist, it belongs to you. The person who copied your art infringed on your automatic copyright. As the artist you retain all rights to reproductions of your art...

It's really annoying me that I cannot find my reference to Mr Sweetapple whose sheep were among the many being stolen in the vast vicinity of Tubbarubba. Trove has demonstrated that one Sweetwater...

why am I not surprised you drink out of such a mug :) ok, now here's a slightly more involved case (although it's really a non-event but I would like to see any responses on this) I will make...

No Because she owns the original not your copy. Copies and prints are made and sold all the time and that's just what they are, copies. You can buy a print or a photograph or copy of just about...

you know, I was thinking about that today at work... I enjoy painting, I do it as a hobby, a release valve. It is calming and therapeutic. I have exhibited but never once sold a painting. Every...

Hi Andrew, Many thanks - I had wondered abouth the St Clement Danes, London connection but had begun banging on walls...... Certainly will follow this up. I see you are searching for info in...

Photography (even bad photography) can surely be copyrighted. What I meant by my comment was, might the tombstone itself be owned by the tombstone "artist", or more likely the person for whom...

ok, I think we probably all know, and agree, that the taking of headstone photos on private land requires permission, (although I know I would probably argue with them if I was caught taking one of...

I believe this is the correct family: William Bawden born 13 May 1822 Lewanick, Cornwall. Married in 1845 to Mary Ann Bartlett, born Lewanick 4 September 1820 died 2 March 1888. Various children,...

Can you say when and where he was born, please? It would help.

Was he born in Cornwall?

Hi Glenys, Joseph Earl James ch 1802 Gainsborough, Lincs (mother Jemima and father Joseph Earl James). Presumably this child died in his first year. Also, from Family Search.org Joseph...

Hello, there is, on NSW birth indexes, a Thomas Edward Wilson born in 1874 in Sydney (child of Thomas Wilson and Keziah Jane). It might be him! Andrew Wilson

My Thomas Cook, of Hartland, Devon, UK, had a son Thomas

Since you already know the names of your parents, you were not adopted and I assume the PCA have given you the only information they have on file; I would suggest the easiest course of action for...

Yes that's him!