I have come into possession of a couple dozen old glass plate negatives from various sources that apparently date from the very early 1900’s. For all of them, very little information, if any is known about the original photographer. In some cases, the people in the images are clearly recognizable, although if there is anyone left alive who would actually recognize them is a debatable question.
Some of them are good enough, or interesting enough, that I intend to try to scan them in to be digitally cleaned up and reprinted.
My question is this:
What are the copyright laws in regards to 100 year old negatives of unknown provenance?
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