From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   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.   
      
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