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hedgerow pete

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i have a few old books at home and some old magazines but before i turn them to pdf and upload them.

what are the rules on doing so and how do i not break the copy right and or how long does copy right last for and how does one get around not getting sued??
 
i have a few old books at home and some old magazines but before i turn them to pdf and upload them.

what are the rules on doing so and how do i not break the copy right and or how long does copy right last for and how does one get around not getting sued??

ask the publishers.....
 
Ask the publisher, as they probably hold the copyright, however if it is a photograph you wish to reproduce this may well be copyrighted by the photographer, not the writer/author or publisher.
I hold the copyright on a number of photographs that have been reproduced many times over in a variety of books and advertising material, fortunately the images are held in a library who handle copyright issues.... occasionally one gets reproduced without permission, but generally the user coughs up to use it ( cheaper than pulping lots of paper!)

I think there are specialist companies who check this stuff out... copyright attournys?
 
I think that copyright dies with the copyright holder..
 
finaly dug them out i have a years set from 1952 of the bee craft panphelt/magazine and some northern bee books.

working on the fact that bee craft are still going may be i should not bother. unless of course i do pdf them and get a strange request via the pm system. not of course that i would ever send someone a copy of them.
 
I think that copyright dies with the copyright holder..

Not if the copyright is held by a corporation. If it is an old publication, you may find there is little opposition.
 
copyright in most published works lasts until 70 years after the death of the author
Yep. Google confirms what you say.

For literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works

70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining author of the work dies.

If the author is unknown, copyright will last for 70 years from end of the calendar year in which the work was created, although if it is made available to the public during that time, (by publication, authorised performance, broadcast, exhibition, etc.), then the duration will be 70 years from the end of the year that the work was first made available.


I knew that music was 50 years and thought that might be the same.

Its why people like Sir Cliff and Paul McCartney are whinging. Copyright ends after 50 years on their stuff.
 

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