From: richard@ex-parrot.com   
      
   On 20/03/19 17:51, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It is true that the party who scanned the images claims rights, but I   
   don't think it is copyright: I think it's normally a licensing issue.   
   In order to access the scans, you agree to be bound by their terms and   
   conditions, and it is common for these to impose additional restrictions   
   on what you can do.  There are few relatively limits on what   
   restrictions the terms can impose.   These may say you cannot copy the   
   images, or that you can only do so for personal use; they may also say   
   you cannot transcribe the images.   
      
   But in my case, that's not relevant.  Having contacted the organisation   
   who published the scans, they were made in-house and the organisation   
   does not want to claim any rights to the scans or impose any   
   restrictions or their use.  However they said they were unable to advise   
   on the copyright status of the originals: they were printed about 100   
   years ago, but some of the identified contributors died less than 70   
   years ago.  From what the British Newspaper Archive says, it sounds like   
   those passages may well still be copyright, but, it's almost certainly   
   safe it ignore it.   
      
   Thanks   
      
   Richard   
      
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