Emperor Penguin Stamp Scans For A Book Project

Dear team,
I am not a stamp collector, but I thought I should post here my request: I am working on a book project about the emperor penguin and I would like to illustrate one chapter with about 20 stamp showing this bird from different countries if possible (I know they are plenty existing). To be clear, I don't need any physical stamp, but just scan or jpg. Nothing to gain I am afraid, but being in the acknowledgement... ;-)
Thank you all!
All the best,

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Emperor penguin.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...n&_sacat=260

Penguin Stamp collector:

The majority of images on recent stamps would be copyrighted by their respective postal administrations. Tread carefully or with permissions.

Hi, Thank you all. For copyright, I am aware but wonder how to find the author of each stamp.... ? ;-)

Are you making an ebook or printed one?
If latter, then you should check what kind of technical requirements (resolution etc) the printer has set for images/media, and use only photos qualifying the criteria (otherwise the results will look pretty crappy when printed).

And are you seeking images of mint or used (cancelled) stamps, or do you qualify both?

And some details of the project (what's the title, who's publishing, what's the topic/approach of book etc) would be also nice to know. Out there are lots of folks who 'misuse' the photos we collectors so generally provide & share.




A somewhat common practice is to put 'The designs of stamps are copyright of issuing postal authorities and their designers' clause and rely it falls to fair use. Of course if it is good practice to approach each postal service (marketing/philatelic dept) separately (with email) and ask for permission - usually they have no objections as it is free PR for their 'products'. This page here has got lots of good info on stamp copyrights of various countries: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...ublic_domain

-k-

If you run a search here for "antarctic" and "polar", you should find lots of material.

Funny, I bought 400g of off-paper stamps the other day and it was loaded with penguin and lighthouse stamps. There are hundreds of penguin stamps, and lost from countries without penguins.

Try SEARCHING in the Topical Forum for Penguin and/or Polar.

KirkS

Dear all. My book project will be publish in French first and then translated in English later I hope. Only hard copy, no ebook or electronic version.
I just would like to write a paragraph about stamp and emperor and just show a few from different countries, so show "popular" this bird was/is.
Regarding the copyright, I think that would be to long/hard/difficult to contact each national authorities. A there any author who make stamp on this forum, so I could ask strait to them? Thank you all , amazing stuff !! ;-)