Re: A question of copyright

[Don Sweet <don@sweetlegal.co.nz>]

Hi David

For most photgraphs taken in England in or before 1944, copyright expired in 1994.

see http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/faq/copyright/oldphotos_1945.htm

Don Sweet

----- Original Message -----

From: davidhatton@totalise.co.uk

To: alt-photo-process-L@sask.usask.ca

Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 7:44 AM

Subject: A question of copyright

Hello List,

I have purchased several lantern slides taken between 1880 and 1920. They are wonderfully 'pictorial' images of various bits of old England. I think that they would make lovely gumprints. I wonder what copyright protection these images would have given that the taker is as dead as mutton? Are any gumprints I may make saleable (in principal of course) ?

Regards

David H