Copyright Aid

The cartoonist is James Frank Sullivan, who signed his work as "Jassef." https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp148442/james-frank-sullivan-jassef He died in 1936, so obviously his works have been public domain in the UK since the end of 1986, before being briefly revived betwe...

The only real argument against hotlinking is bandwidth theft. A couple of times in the past I had issues when websites with far higher traffic than mine hotlinked to my images, threatening to exceed the monthly usage limits on my own site hosting.

While I don't have a have copy myself, there is one in the British Library which leads me to assume it was a formal and properly copyrighted publication. When we are finally free to roam the earth I will go to the British Library to check. If you haven't done already, it might be worth checking www...

However as the book was in copyright on 1 July 1995, it will have benefitted from a 20 year extension to the post mortem period (so 70 years after death) which came into force that year. To be picky, the extension was not dependent on a work still being in copyright on 1 July 1995, as lapsed works ...

My feeling is that if the barrister did inherit Sir Arthur Waite's copywrite, then wouldn't the date of Waite's death be the one the public domain status is based upon? Since Pamala Coleman Smith died in poverty, surely she was not receiving royalties from sales of the book? (or cards, for that mat...

The "problem" for the supposed EU-based extension is that the Paragraph 12 of Schedule 1 as revised still states: (2) Copyright in the following descriptions of work continues to subsist until the date on which it would have expired under the 1956 Act— ... (c) published photographs and pho...

Yes, I thought it best not to post the details of the surviving members of the family here for privacy reasons. Obviously the barrister would be the best first port of call!

Thanks for that, Andy. Mea culpa for incorrectly relying on the 1842 Act rather than 1862 (D'oh!). I suppose there might be a question as to whether the 1911 Act could have over-ridden the 1862 Act as regards the automatic transfer of copyright in the case of a commission, given that section 24 of t...

I looked into this previously, and what I think the situation is is covered on the Talk page for the Rider-Waite deck Wikipedia page. The bottom line is that Waite commissioned Colman Smith to do the artwork for the deck, and it is contended that Waite owned the copyright as the commissioner, but ob...

Productions stills are rarely the work of a film's director. They are normally taken by a studio photographer - or a freelancer - for continuity and/or publicity purposes. Ownership would therefore usually be with the studio or producers, not the director.

Nice to see RHG still pretending the Quotations Exception does not exist....

Hi Nick, Good call. If you have an address it's very good for finding out who lived there in September 1939. But if you search on a name, the 1939 Register will only identify people who have since died, or who were born before 1916. All other entries are obscured. Plus, in my experience some of the...

Doing a bit of Googling, it looks like Tuck used the "after" designation incorrectly for simple reproductions. Comparing the postcard image to one of the original work should make it clear whether it is a reproduction or not.

HelenBee wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 8:41 amI’d also considered the access of census returns and am pleased you have confirmed my own opinion on this.

Presumably you've also factored in the 1939 ID Card Register?

Thank you Nick. Can you not see the example that I linked to? Not initially, as there is a rogue full stop in the URL, but having removed it, I can now see your image. On the face of it, LYD's claims seem extremely tenuous. They can't claim copyright simply on the silhouettes of people, trees, and ...