From: exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
      
   Graeme Wall  wrote on 20 Mar 2019 in   
   soc.genealogy.britain:   
      
   > On 20/03/2019 17:51, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Good point.   
      
   I doubt that.   
      
   Scanning is not a creative action,   
   so only the possible original copyright persists.   
      
      
      
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