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| Graeme Wall to Richard Smith |
| Re: Copyright period for English newspap |
| 20 Mar 19 16:10:22 |
From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk On 20/03/2019 15:11, Richard Smith wrote: > Is anyone able to tell me when old English newspapers come out of > copyright in the UK? The normal rule is 70 years from the death of the > author, but the concept of an author seems fairly ill-defined for a > newspaper. > I think that in the case of a publication with no acknowledged author, such as a newspaper article, it is 70 years from the date of publication. -- Graeme Wall This account not read. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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