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   Charles Ellson to exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
   Re: Copyright period for English newspap   
   21 Mar 19 23:36:01   
   
   From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:49:32 +0100, "Evertjan."   
    wrote:   
      
   >Charles Ellson  wrote on 21 Mar 2019 in   
   >soc.genealogy.britain:   
   >   
   >>>Scanning is not a creative action,   
   >>>so only the possible original copyright persists.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> US law doesn't apply to us   
   >   
   >This is not about that,   
   >but it shows logical interpretation of the Berner   
   >   
   Berne   
      
   >Convention.   
   >   
   The Berne Convention does not define copyright law within the   
   jurisdiction of an individual signatory beyond the matter of a foreign   
   author having equal rights to a native.   
      
   >Yes, indeed, logic doen't seem to prevail in British thinking today.   
   >   
   British thinking is irrelevant; it is the law of the relevant   
   jurisdiction that matters.   
      
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