XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10kbv8h$17bc2$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >On 2026-01-15 21:29:32 +0000, Blueshirt said:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Maybe not. It depends on the copyright holder - some are more   
   >protective than others. Some of the stuff on archive.org is relatively   
   >new too.   
   >   
   >There is an archive website for old Apple Macintosh computer software   
   >called MacintoshGarden.org which has lots of old software that can no   
   >longer be purchased. Most developers either don't know or don't care,   
   >some smaller developers even help out uploading their own old software,   
   >but there are one or two big name companies that have issued "cease and   
   >desist" / "take down" notices even though they no longer sell the   
   >software and no new computers can run it other than via an emulator.   
   >The website organisers do check that the software from those companies   
   >is not uploaded.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Ever saw the archive.org on what is now BBC's Tech now?   
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