Margaret Boyd, Picasa, Gmail, and flickr, Oh My!

Margaret Boyd,
originally uploaded by hhdane_mom.

Assignment #6 More Flickr Fun

Oh boy! Picasa, Gmail, and flickr all working together! I found a post that explained how to send your photos from Picasa to flickr by emailing the images within Picasa using its Email button. It just so happened that I used my Gmail account to do it, but I had a choice of using my work account. Whatever is in the body of the email serves as the flickr tags, while the title of the email serves as the image title.

Margaret Boyd was the first female graduate of Ohio University, in 1873. Photo courtesy Boyd Family Collection, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio

This image, though I'm guessing at the date of creation, is old enough to be teetering on the brink of being in the Public Domain. Since we don't know who took the photo it would fall into the category of unpublished anonymous and pseudonymous works or work made for hire (corporate authorship). In this category works are under copyright for 120 years from date of creation, so only works created before 1887 are in the Public Domain (in 2007). If we knew the creator of the photo, it would fall into the category of unpublished work which remains under copyright for the life of the author + 70 years--only works from authors who died before 1937 are in the Public Domain (in 2007). As you might now guess, unpublished works have a different schedule for entering the Public Domain. A wonderful reference on this is Peter Hirtle's page. Note that although I'm treating the image as PD, I'm still crediting/citing the repository.