Copyright Aid

Thanks for your help.

The CD simply has a single PDF image with scanned images of all the pages within the file. There is no added functionality of any sort.

If I purchase a CD on which there is a scanned copy of a 19th century trade directory, are the seller's claims of copyright valid or nonsense ?

In other words, am I free to sell my own copies given that I'm fairly certain the old book is well out of copyright ?

Thanks Nick.

How do I prove that a photographer behind a 1920 (for example) postcard died before 1945 and what if I can't prove that ..... possibly because I don't know who he/she was (see below) ? You wouldn't need to. The copyright on a photograph taken in 1920 would have lapsed at the end of 1970, as per the...

That's a superb reply Andy and I'm very grateful for your time in putting it together. Can I ask a couple of questions ........... From this it can be seen that provided the author died before 1 Jan 1945 the photographs he/she produced would be in the public domain by the time the change to +70 year...

Apologies for the long post but I'm hoping to clear the mists on this one after months of confusing advice ! I have, for nearly 10 years, built and grown an image archive website that holds over 2000 images of my local area. The images are mostly from old postcards and most of them from the 1900-193...

Thanks for that explanation.

I have been working with local schools for a few years now to build an online library of old images of our city to bring history to life for school kids. The site has no commercial element, it is purely educational and contains optimized web-images that would not print with any quality. The images o...