Copyright Aid

Am I the only one raising an eye-brow at the publishers not being aware that such a photograph would be long out of copyright?!

I would think that the absolute first port of call would be the successor companies for the products advertised, and in most cases they would probably be happy to approve neutral use for no charge. Some companies maintain their own historical archives, and so may be able to supply better versions of...

Back to square one. Fox Chapel does own the rights. I don't understand this at all. Could arbitrarily pick a nursery rhyme and copyright it? Unfortunately, in many cases, that's just what happened, and in fact continues to happen. Someone takes a "traditional" rhyme, makes their own chang...

There was an earlier version published in December 1947 in the US magazine Hoosier Folklore. However, the Manchester Evening News of 15 February 1946 has a piece alluding to it as a "modern nursery rhyme," so obviously it was circulating on both sides of the Atlantic at the time.

I would suggest that you fully attribute the (mis)quote, either on the copyright page, or in any foreword or acknowledgements page you include. Even a footnote on the actual text page would work.

Plus, we are still left with the fact that Section 12 (2) of Schedule 1 of the 1988 CDPA as currently in force remains unaltered, and thus implies that the original 1911 and 1956 Act terms remain the same for photographs that were created before the 1988 Act first became law.

If I had a larger collection, I'd be tempted to do a website!

I did recently have a look through the one bound six-month volume of Punch that I have - the second half of 1936 - as well as a couple of single earlier pages I have, and found that a five of 22 identifiable artists featured are now public domain, while another five will expire before 2030. Of the o...

As per this and the previous thread, the UK copyright in the basic non-coloured illustrations expires after 31 December this year, but any user relying on that would be advised to to source as early an edition of The Pictorial Key to the Tarot as possible from which to copy them.

Looking at the OP, this is a depressingly telling detail: "I spoke to one [rights holder] about the possibility of the Melody entering into the public domain next year, but they said it never happens." Which is obviously a blatant lie. This looks like yet another example where putative or ...

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...