As I understand it, Korda never held any copyright on the image as he
was shooting for the official government press agency and would no
more have had a pecuniary right than any other press photographer
working for an agency or newspaper. Of course, it made him famous...
Andrewf
On 05/01/2006, at 2:32 PM, ScottGee1 wrote:
> The owner (Jack) is a fine photographer who spends a lot of time in
> Cuba. He befriended a number of the old shooters there including
> Alberto Korda, the fellow who made the iconic shot of Che Guevara. Of
> course copyrights were completely violated and the photographers never
> received any royalties. Jack sells prints for them and funnels the
> money back to the guys who are still alive and their survivors.
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