XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: blueshirt@indigo.news   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
      
   > On 2026-01-15 10:07:34 +0000, solar penguin said:   
   > >Lawrence D´Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > Some of the earliest issues (copyright-expired) are   
   > > > available here   
   > > >   
   .   
   > >   
   > > Copyright expired? The comics were made in the UK and subject   
   > > to UK copyright laws. The copyright can’t expire until the   
   > > writer and artist have both been dead for 70 years.   
   > >   
   > > It’s great that the pirated strips are available but it’s   
   > > nothing to do with expired copyright.   
   >   
   > A lot of what is on Archive.org is pirated and still   
   > copyright. As with most of these user-created places, nobody   
   > official ever bothers to check.   
      
   Even if they did, I sure distributing a PDF/CBR of some scanned   
   comics from the 1960's wouldn't get PC Plod knocking at your   
   door anyway... maybe a cease and desist notification, if they   
   could even be bothered about old stuff like that.   
      
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