Copyright Aid

Hi ras52 and welcome to the forum, You are right to assume that if you are reasonably sure that the original work is out of copyright, you only need to pay attention to the conditions laid down by the Internet Archive. Scans of the sort made by the Open Library and Google Books etc do not qualify ...

Hi Sallie, As you correctly indicate Lawson Wood died in October 1957 and so copyright in his work lasts until the 31 December 2027. Precisely who owns that copyright today is difficult to say without knowledge of the contractual relationship he had with Valentines. Since the UK copyrght is still in ...

Hi copywrong and welcome to the forum. I need to be clear about exactly what you mean by the words "we also showed the main photo" in order to get this image to appear on your site. If you only linked to both the image and the news article so that no copy of the image was hosted on your server, then ...

Hi pkpk8 and welcome, I'm going to be very brief because this forum is not here to give advice on tax matters. First of all, are you registrered for VAT? If not then you can't charge VAT. If you are registered then, since 2020, HMRC has classed any compenstation of this sort as a supply and ...

Yes and yes, although take care over song titles. They are likely to trigger an automated bot which in turn may lead to your story being the subject of a speculative DMCA takedown if it appears on the internet. While a takedown of this sort would almost certainly not be legally valid, you would ...

Hi Cosmicity and welcome to the forum, I think it is important to say from the outset that the image concerned is almost certainly protected by copyright and if it has been used without a proper licence then infringement is likely to have occurred. From your description it also sounds as if you, as ...

Hi John and welcome to the forum, There certtainly wouldn't be any copyright infringement of the names of any artists even if you mentioned their real names, since names are considered to be unprotectable facts. Fully quoting the titles of songs should also be safe but since you don't want to use ...

Good result. Thanks for letting us know the outcome.

Thanks fc,

I have covered your points in my reply to your pm so I won't reiterate them here.

You are on firm ground legally speaking and need to be very firm with Alamy.

Hi, This is probably one of two things. It may be that the image being offered via Alamy is much higher quality, so that, for instance, it could be blown up to poster size and still retain good resolution. In contrast, the one you got from Pexels may be just adequate for a website. The second and ...

Hi Anthony, In view of what you would like to do, in comparing and contrasting Milne's version to Austen's original, I can see the strong justification for fairly lengthy quotation. Nonetheless, I think it would be sensible to approach the publishers for permission. Given, as you say, that the ...

Hi Anthony, and welcome to the forum. It sounds as if you intend to rely on the exception for criticism or review (section 30(1)), rather than the less specific Section 30(1ZA). This is a point in your favour since a more disciplined, academic approach is what the original fair dealing exceptions ...

Hi Dan, No need for apologies. It is complicated so there is every reason for your brain to be frazzled coming into the subject cold. Put simply copyright infringement occurs when a person copies, distributes or makes available to others a copyright work without the permission of the copyright owner ...

Hi dan, As you have found, the law regarding fonts (this term is preferred to typefaces when we are talking about electronic fonts) is very complicated. And despite the fact that there was an attempt at an international treaty to set out the rules for protecting fonts, in fact each jurisdiction has ...

Hi sb, A written contract with precise t&cs sounds excellent. Yes, if they have made an adaptation of your work, by editing any of it and applying their logo without permission, then that would be infringement of your copyright. Unfortunately. although there is a straightforward restriction on ...