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Originally Posted by Hellmark
But in this case, what copyright is there? We're talking documents, that are on the low side of being 300 years old, and some going over a thousand years old. I mean, the majority of the stuff predates copyright. I mean, what is the first copyright law, the Licensing of Press Act of 1662? The one example I mentioned was from 1569. 93 years before then, so again, what copyright?
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There is copyright in the reproduction by image... it is owned by the image producer...
If I transcribe an out-of-copyright text then there is no problem but if I photograph/photocopy the actual pages of a manuscript then I have the copyright in the actual photographs/scans and I can approve the use in a book but if nobody asks there may be no approval to reproduce in other media such as eBooks...
May not be helpful but that is reality at the moment...