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Gathering pictures---the best way?I live in the US and I have family in Australia and I am creating a family history book. In your experance what is the best way to gather the pictures they have and be able to share ALL the pictures with all the family. I have been told about flickr.com but it will cost $25 for our needs. Anything better?
Keep smiling and thanks 
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You could try photobucket.com or if you’re a mac user try .mac (now mobileme). A cheap option could be if you already have a hosting account for a website or a webserver you could set up an ftp account for your relatives to upload to. Cheers |
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You could also just try our GroupBook feature, which is free. Watch this video to learn more, or to get started, open BookSmart, click on the "Invite Contributors" icon in the upper right hand corner, and select "New Contributor Project." This way, you can have each invited family member upload up to 30 high-resolution photos each that you can import directly into BookSmart. |
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can photos from professional photographers be used? Even if you dont know who did them because it does not say on the photo? |
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but if you don’t know who took the photos you cannot ask for their written agreement to use those photos, and without that permission you are likely to be breaching their copyright. I know a lot of people doing family albums and family histories (I must add including me!) gloss over that with old photographs belonging to family members, but I would never do it in any other type of book. For a quick outline of some aspects of copyright have a look here. Although it refers to use of photos on the Internet all the points apply to use in other published media including books. http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html .......Tony |
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