From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Richard Smith   
    writes:   
   >On 20/03/19 16:10, Graeme Wall wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >Thanks.  That would make sense.   
   >   
   >Richard   
   >   
   But beware of pictorial representations, if the scan has been made by a   
   commercial archiving company; the _content_ may be out of copyright, as   
   may the physical layout, but if the only access you have is to a scan   
   made by someone, I think it is likely that they may have some claim from   
   the date they scanned it. You can almost certainly transcribe from their   
   scan, but not reproduce their scan itself. IANAL though.   
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