From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 23:44:24 +0100, "Evertjan."   
    wrote:   
      
   >Graeme Wall  wrote on 20 Mar 2019 in   
   >soc.genealogy.britain:   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> Scanning is not a creative action,   
   >>   
   >> Legally it could be, you are creating a new work.   
   >   
   >No, not "work" in the sense of the Berner convention.   
   >   
   >Photographs are ONLY a "literary and artistic work" if some NEW "artistic"   
   >propperty is added, which in a scan clearly is NOT the case.   
   >   
   It is at the least creating a representation in a different media.   
   There is further new creation if the process involves a significant   
   degree of "repair". The original copyright remains but further   
   copyright might be created attached to the new version of the original   
   work if there is sufficient value added. The Berne convention is not   
   the only legal matter to consider; each jurisdiction might have its   
   own subtleties which could have significant differing consequences.   
   While it entitles mutual recognition of copyright by the signatories   
   it does not endow a copyright holder in country A with more rights   
   (rather than the same rights) in country B than a citizen of country B   
   enjoys so if country B deems that a particular form of reproduction   
   has created new copyright then that applies in country B and the new   
   author is entitled to the rewards (as also is the original author to   
   his, if any). Your case only applies if it matches the rules in a   
   particular country.   
      
      
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