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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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In the US, they would be in the public domain. All copyright items fall into the public domain in the US, prior to 1923. That included images, motion pictures, as well as writing. A pre-Berne artifact of US copyright law. However, I would strongly recommend that they be hosted on a US server....