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William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection

Rights and Restrictions Information

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540-4730


William C. Brumfield's photographs are protected by copyright.

Access: Permitted; subject to P&P policy on serving originals which requires the use of digital surrogates in preference to the original photographs.

Reproduction (photocopying, hand-held camera copying, photoduplication and other forms of copying allowed by "fair use"): Permitted; subject to P&P policy on copying which prohibits photocopying of the original photographs in the collection.

Publication and other forms of distribution: Restricted. Mr. Brumfield's photographs are protected by copyright. Works created after January 1, 1978 are usually protected for the author/creator/copyright holder's life plus 70 years. However, in providing photographs for the Library's collections Mr. Brumfield has stipulated that he is reserving his copyright for fifteen years from the date of each gift (the collection is being given in several installments). As the first installment was given in October 1999, the earliest any images from the collection would be out of copyright is October 2014. While the collection is under copyright, photographs may not be published without Mr. Brumfield's permission. (See P&P Collection Files.) Privacy and publicity rights may also apply. The photographer's address is:

Mr. William C. Brumfield
c/o Slavic Studies Department,
305 Newcomb Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 865-5276

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., [LC-DIG-ppmsc-12345 (digital file from original)]

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Prepared by: Prints and Photographs Division staff. Last revised: May 24, 2001.


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