XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
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   Blueshirt  wrote:   
   >Your Name wrote:   
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   >> 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.   
      
      
   Good point.   
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