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   Evertjan. to Charles Ellson   
   Re: Copyright period for English newspap   
   22 Mar 19 10:01:42   
   
   From: exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
      
   Charles Ellson  wrote on 22 Mar 2019 in   
   soc.genealogy.britain:   
      
   > IMU they can prevent you transcribing but not due to copyright   
   > considerations rather than contractual. As with e.g. banning people   
   > with brown shoes from entering your premises, there might not be any   
   > legal sanction available other than not allowing access.   
      
   Right.   
      
   So if a scan is published or otherwise legally accessable,   
   the Berner Convention applies internationally [meaning: in most countries],   
   so only "creative" changes are copyrightable.   
      
   Copyright does not have to be stated, it is implicit.   
      
   While copyright has to be claimed to be exercisable, that does not mean that   
   claim to be exercisable outside the constraints of the law.   
      
   Methinks, in the realm of genealogy, most claims are just false and   
   misleading.   
      
      
      
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