From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:26:23 +0100, "Evertjan."   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   US law doesn't apply to us   
      
   yet.   
      
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