Copyrights, user fees, etc.

[Richard T Eger]

From TOCH!:

Franek Grabowski
ECPA
Thu Mar 6 22:32:32 2024
213.25.54.73

I'm not sure about the copyrights as in case of negative's loss this would mean the loss of copyright itself. The problem here is however that no official IIIrd Reich photos are copyrighted - this is due to agreements of the winning powers.
Regarding the prices, I've my own opinion about the press agencies but still ECPA fees are just too expensive for most of the publishers, it's extremally rare to put one photo only. Otherwise policy of selling the photos only for cpublisher-contracted persons and not allowing to make refference photocopies just make this archive very researcher unfriendly. Note that most of the researchers are amateurs with the limited budget.
Franek