SPADEM and ADAGP used to be umbrella organizations
representing most French artists. They had a joint
office in NYC. You can check with them, or their
successors. Or look online or in print for recently
published Hemard illustrations and see who is given as
the permission holder.
C.J. Scheiner
--- Michael Widener <MWidener@LAW.UTEXAS.EDU> wrote:
> I'm assisting a patron who is preparing an article
> about the French book illustrator Joseph Hemard
> (1880-1961). He wants to include several
> illustrations from one of Hemard's books, but we
> don't know where to get permission. A cursory look
> at French copyright law indicates that the
> illustrations are still protected by copyright, and
> that permission would be required to reprint them in
> a scholarly or professional journal. (For an
> excellent guide to copyright law around the world,
> see "International Copyright Law and Practice" by
> Melville B. Nimmer & Paul Edward Geller, New York:
> Matthew Bender, 1988- ; also available online in
> Lexis.)
>
> The book containing the illustrations was published
> in 1944 by E. Desfossés, a firm active through most
> of the 20th century. It appears to have last
> published something in 1972 under the name
> Desfossés-Néogravure (judging from WorldCat).
>
> At this point, the author and I are stumped as to
> who to ask for permission. I welcome any clues,
> suggestions, etc.
>
> I'd also welcome any citations to source material on
> Hemard and his work. We own Marcel Valotaire's
> JOSEPH HEMARD (New York: Brentano's, 1929) and have
> been in contact with Prof. Margaret Harp of UNLV.
> Regards,
>
> *****
> MIKE WIDENER, C.A., Head of Special Collections
> Joseph D. Jamail Fellow in Law Librarianship
> Tarlton Law Library, School of Law
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 727 E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705-3224
> Phone: 512/471-7263; fax: 512/471-0243
> E-mail: mwidener@law.utexas.edu
> Web site: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/
>
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