![]() ![]() Photograph: Transworld PublishersĪ spokesperson for Transworld said that “given how extensively the image has been reproduced in the past, it was presumed that the image was in the public domain. It wasn’t in the least bit bracing.”īill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling, complete with Jolly Fisherman. A few were eating fish and chips, but most just stood staring at the bleak wet world. ![]() ![]() “As I could see, there was nothing wrong with Skegness that moving it 800 miles south couldn’t fix,” Bryson writes, adding that: “people everywhere were standing in doorways or under awnings. Bryson does mention Skegness in the travelogue, recalling arriving in the town on the “most miserably rainy weekend of the summer”. Town clerk Steve Larner, who grants permission for usage of the Jolly Fisherman, told the Echo that he “wouldn’t have given permission in this case as doesn’t mention Skegness”, adding “if the image is used to promote Skegness, then generally speaking it is for the benefit of the town, and if it brings people in then it’s positive”. The council usually charges only £10 to those who want to use the image to cover paperwork fees, granting permission to requests for usage that will promote Skegness. The Lincolnshire Echo reported earlier this week that Lincolnshire town council, which owns the copyright to the image, had not been approached by Transworld Publishers before it used the Jolly Fisherman on the jacket of The Road to Little Dribbling. ![]()
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