WW1 & WW2 Posters
WW1 & WW2 Posters
Could you tell me if I am allowed to use pictures of WW1 and WW2 Posters in a forthcoming book which will be put on sale?
Re: WW1 & WW2 Posters
Hi bethany and welcome to the forum.
If you are talking about offical posters published by the UK or US Governments, they are no longer subject to copyright. In the case of the UK, all works produced by or for the government were subject to Crown copyright. Crown copyright usually lasts for 125 years from the date the work was made, but this drops to 50 years from the date that the work was made available to the public.
In the USA all works produced by and for the Federal Government cannot be subject to copyright (see section 105 of the 1976 Copyright Act).
If you are referring to other non-government posters, produced by companies for example, then most posters from the WW1 era will now be out of copyright, but some from the WW2 period are likely to still be protected, as the duration of copyright is 70 years from the end of the year of death of the author of the work.
If you are talking about offical posters published by the UK or US Governments, they are no longer subject to copyright. In the case of the UK, all works produced by or for the government were subject to Crown copyright. Crown copyright usually lasts for 125 years from the date the work was made, but this drops to 50 years from the date that the work was made available to the public.
In the USA all works produced by and for the Federal Government cannot be subject to copyright (see section 105 of the 1976 Copyright Act).
If you are referring to other non-government posters, produced by companies for example, then most posters from the WW1 era will now be out of copyright, but some from the WW2 period are likely to still be protected, as the duration of copyright is 70 years from the end of the year of death of the author of the work.
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