XPost: rec.arts.drwho
From: YourName@YourISP.com
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.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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