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Originally Posted by HarryT
Does that fact that the pre-1923 magazines are in the US public domain necessarily mean that these scans are? If I take a photograph of the "Mona Lisa" in the Louvre, it's my photograph, and I have the right to control its distribution, even though the image in the photograph is in the public domain.
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Very good point, and one that's come up a few times in recent months (the UK NPG lawsuit, Google's copyright claims on scans they've made, etc). From a legal standpoint, I'm not entirely sure it's clear whether scans from the older sets are PD or not. Of course, this is an entirely different issue from whether they
should be PD or not. At the same time, if someone here were to scan in their own copies of the pre-1923 issues, they're absolutely allowed to release them under a re-distribution license if they want.