The image is indeed in the Lindon Baynes Johnson Library website. This is the page with the information, download links at different sizes, and the copyright clearly defined as being in the public domain:
http://www.lbjlibrary.org/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=14
This is the copyright information as stated on the lbjlibrary.org photo archive page:
Now here is the version that is on the Getty Images website as rights-managed, which is the same identical image:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/in-the-aftermath-of-the-assasination-of-us-president-john-f-news-photo/113493550
On the Getty Images website, the photographer is listed as Universal Images Group. A Google Search reveals them to be "the universal business unit for premium content of the Virtual Picture Desk founded by George Sinclair in 2002. UIG sources, edits and aggregates photographs, prints, lithographs, paintings, engravings, illustrations, footage, video clips and other multimedia content."
http://universalimagesgroup.com/
As Star Trek's Mr. Spock would say: "Illogical."
I suspect it can't be both an image in the public domain and an image that can have a legal copyright owner. So who's wrong? The LBJ Library or "business unit" Universal Images Group — AND Getty Images, their distributor for this image?
The plot thickens ... more to come.
http://www.lbjlibrary.org/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=14
This is the copyright information as stated on the lbjlibrary.org photo archive page:
Quote
Public Domain: This image is in the public domain and may be used free of charge without permissions or fees
Now here is the version that is on the Getty Images website as rights-managed, which is the same identical image:
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/in-the-aftermath-of-the-assasination-of-us-president-john-f-news-photo/113493550
On the Getty Images website, the photographer is listed as Universal Images Group. A Google Search reveals them to be "the universal business unit for premium content of the Virtual Picture Desk founded by George Sinclair in 2002. UIG sources, edits and aggregates photographs, prints, lithographs, paintings, engravings, illustrations, footage, video clips and other multimedia content."
http://universalimagesgroup.com/
As Star Trek's Mr. Spock would say: "Illogical."
I suspect it can't be both an image in the public domain and an image that can have a legal copyright owner. So who's wrong? The LBJ Library or "business unit" Universal Images Group — AND Getty Images, their distributor for this image?
The plot thickens ... more to come.