Who Owns the Copyrights on Obituaries?

[Ina]

Hi,

Here is an interesting article from Dick Eastman

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_ge ... he-co.html

Ina

[Anne H]

Hi Ina,

How interesting! I would never have thought about who owned copyright for an obituary. That said, I would have imagined the originator of the wording, which I thought would be the person who placed the ad in the newspaper, would be the one to own copyright. You learn something every day.!

Regards,
Anne H

[Archiver]

Interesting comments on the newspaper's site as well, with a few people saying that surely the person who wrote the obituary (presumably a family member) holds the copyright. However, the newspaper will hold copyright over the style and given that it seems that even punctuation has been copied, then this is a breach of copyright.