Copyright Aid

'Where a work is made by Her Majesty or by an officer or servant of the Crown in the course of his duties'. ' To me, this is the nub of it. I read a lot of old correspondence by 'servants of the Crown', but they have a really awkward way of intermingling the personal and public as it were. So it mak...

Okay. According to my understanding, unpublished literary material remains in copyright until 2039. That being said, when does what a person does technically qualify as Crown Copyright? Take the following cases:- 1. A Government Minister pencilling off a note relating to the business of his departme...

Ha, well, I'm thinking of trying to set up a site with certain historical documents from a variety of sources for educational/collaborative research purposes. Being the careful fellow that I am though; I'm trying to ensure that nobody has a legal leg to stand on for challenging what I put onto it. F...

I see. That clears that up then. Many thanks on that; I'm working with a family right now in the above described situation to try and figure out which of them actually possesses the copyright. Time to start digging up the wills!

Hmmm... So if copyright is inherited along with possession; where does the copyright go once the documents have been given away (say, for tax relief), and we've moved on a couple of generations? Say my great-grandfather left my grandfather the documents in his will (and not to his three siblings), m...

Firstly, thank you for the succinct reply. Since you indicate that it is not entirely clear cut; it seems to me to be worth further consideration. You think that modification of an image would technically qualify as a derivative work, and I can see the reasoning. Flipping it around then, rather than...

In many archives I have visited, one is asked to fill out a disclaimer form in which you agree to ask permission from the archive before reproducing any items photographed within. Several have also claimed ownership over items which are clearly not in copyright or something they could own copyright ...

Until recently, copyright for industrial design was limited to twenty five years. In the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act of 2013 however, this was extended to the life of the artist plus 70 years. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/24/part/6/crossheading/copyright-and-rights-in-performanc...

To my knowledge, published works from back in the ninteenth century are well out of copyright. Yet a number of journal and online access providers claim that their plonking an out of copyright item on top of a flatbed scanner generates a new copyright for that image specifically; even though it is a...

I am aware that unpublished works were originally held to have copyright in perpetuity until recently; when 2039 was specified as an expiry date for the older materials. I am also aware that copyright passes to the descendants of a person whether specified in the will or not., My query is consequent...