Talk:Lucia Peka

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Various members of our family have been collecting Latvian Diaspora art for several decades. I personally own several of the paintings discussed on the Lucia Peka entry. Other family members (August Court, Morgan Brown, etc) have given permission for photographs of their own Lucia Peka paintings to be included in the entry. We have the only existing prints of the remaining images and have given our permission to include them. There are doubtless hundreds of additional paintings to be found - and that is the purpose of the article: to begin to codify Lucia Peka's lifetime of work.

As she died in 1991, before the Diaspora began in earnest to examine itself, she was temporarily lost. We hope to play some small part in her re-emergence. She will be included in several exhibitions of Latvian work, in 2009, and that is just the beginning. Fostercourt (talk) 00:10, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

The copyright of the painting resides with the artist, or in this case, presumably, the inheritors of the artist's estate. The copyright holder has to give permission. It is a breach of copyright otherwise. Can you get permission from the copyright holder? Ty 00:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I follow your logic. We met Ms. Peka once, in 1985, and she explained she was no longer producing and that no one was actively collecting her work any longer. She had no children, brothers or sisters, and her husband pre-deceased her. Her work has been orphaned. Presumably, one could engage attorneys to establish the legal status of the images, but there is no one interested in them and we own the originals.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Fostercourt (talk • contribs)

Ownership of the originals does not bestow ownership of the copyright. That belongs to the estate. This needs to be resolved, because it will be brought up again on wikipedia, if it's not. Basically, you're saying you don't know who owns the copyright, but you're not saying that you do own it, only that you own the paintings. In that case, the images cannot be allowed on wiki, apart from two or three under "fair use". Ty 01:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Lucia's father was a Roman Catholic priest

Very interesting, do elaborate. ^Talk/♥фĩłдωəß♥\^Work 14:23, 6 July 2008 (UTC)