Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-13
THE PHOTOS.
Editor Honolulu Star.Bulletin.


Sir: In your evening paper of Sep
TENDER II there appeared an article
entitled "A Dispute Over Photos" etc,
and part Of the correspondence be-
tween Prof. Bryan and myself, re-
garding certain pictures copyrighted
by myself and used by Mr.. Bryan with
out authority or permission In his
book I reiterate the statement made
to Mrs Bryan over the telephone that
had her husband asked me for the
use Of certain pictures for his. book
would have gladly granted him per-
mission to use some Of them If not as
many as he chose to use without hay-
ing the civility to ask for them. II
told her that such underhanded bust
ness / could not let go unnoticed. FL
have been back at the college over al
year and Mr.. Bryan had ample time
to ask me for the use of these pic
lures. may also remark that the |
pictures copyrighted by myself have
not been published first in Board of
Agriculture and Forestry publications,
as stated by him, save one. had
made no reference to these pictures.
They were, however, used by him
without the boards consent.
. Most OF the pictures used by him
were those first published In my book |
on "The Indigenous Trees Of the Ha-
wafian Islands, which book was copy
rfghted by me in 1913. Mr.. Bryan
knew very well that these plates were
not discarded for he made careful
selection from amongst my negatives,
the names and text for wnica he had
to secure from my book, which plain |
ly bears the mari, Copyrighted 1913, /
Joseph +. Rock. !" =, !. -. At, Il. ~.
For reasons Of his own, Prof Bryan
did not give your reporter the whole
correspondence, that 10, my answers
to his letters, which append here.
with and which are seIf-explanatory.
4 regret the incident, but as have
been told that this is not Prof Bfyan's
first offense ] thought it wise to teach
him a lesson and thus safeguard the
property Of other writer's from simi.
lar happeningss Prof. Bryan should /
be thankful that I warned him in time
rs / could have let the matter go till
be tried to issue his first book, and
then could have ordered confscatedl
his whole edition besides his having
to pay a fine for infringement of my
:. -. II
T Yours truly.
+. 49,. s.S ~ ]. F. ROCK.
Honolulu T. H., Sept. 6, 1915. !
Prof. VIM. A. Bryan, 49,. r.
Honolulu, TIL, .. - .r.tg,Pl
J Dear Sir am in receipt 81 your
letter Of Sept In which you wish. to-
acquaint me with certain authority
IN which you proceeded to use my
copyrighted pictures Mr.. Gilmore
had no authority over plates copyright
ed by me of which he was, am sure,
lust as well aware as you were and
are, and as to your story of discarded
negatives belonging to the college col.
lection I may inform you that at least
b my department there Is no snch
which may be termed dis
carded.
The majority of 81 plates were
made by me before / was connected
with the college and are mostly my
as well as those copyrighted
b my book travelling expenses wereE
paid by me for which have receipt.
For the rest the college received from
me an equivalent of $500. II
This, however, ! would not need to
state to you as this has no bearing on Il
The case. The fact remains that you
have used without my permission
plates Of which you were aware that
hey had been copyrighted, for know
vou have made liberal use of both Il
my text and plates Of my book. Ii
) Your publication is private and 50
Is mine, i do not In the least need to
establish any proof to you In regard
10 personal property OF the plates. II
You have used plates copyrighted by 4
ne without authority or permission
ind for any Infringement upon my
light as holder of the copyright shall
you to the fullest extent.
Z l do not care to sell or compromise
n any, way but request you to with.
iraw every single picture taken by
ne and used by you tn your book en-
tiled "A Natural History of Hawaii"
4 copyrighted or not. 7
Yours truly,
J.F. ROCK. Il
Honolulu, Sept. 7, 1915.
Prof. William A. Bryan,
Honolulu.