Again - not a legal opinion, and there are qualifying riders that could
be added to this: Under normal circumstances, artistic copyright expires
70 yrs after the artist's death. By calculation, it is very likely that
this is out of copyright or, if not, it must be pretty close to it.
Alan
Dr Alan Knox
Historic Collections
University of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen AB24 3SW
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fax: +44 (0) 1224 27 3891
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:28:07 -0500
From: Karen Reeds <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Loch broom Field club copyright question
This is my personal opinion, not a legal one (but based on years of
American scholarly publishng experience as acquiring editor and as
author): Include the illustrations, credit them fully, and don't
waste another minute worrying about copyright or permissions. The
publisher probably doesn't exist anymore (nothing came up on Google
or Amazon), and you have the physical copy of the original
illustrations.
Karen Reeds
(Former science editor, Rutgers University Press)
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:13:35 -0000
>From: "Chaplin, Simon" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: FW: copyright
>
>Dear list members,
>We've received the following enquiry. I wondered if anyone might be
able
>to advise? If so, could you please make sure that your reply is copied
>to Mr Copestake ([log in to unmask]) as well as the list.
>Many thanks
>Simon
>
>
>
>Dear Sir, Madam
>
>I am writing on behalf of the Loch broom Field club. We have published
a
>small booklet on the flora of Loch broom which we sell locally to
>interested visitors in the area.
>
>The club though properly constitutes is very small and the sales is
seen
>as an extension of our own interests and although we aim to cover our
>costs the small surplus is fed back into the club.
>
>The flora is due for reprinting, as electronic methods now make adding
>illustrations viable, we would like to include some within the
>publication. With no artists on tap, one of the group suggested that we
>scan some of the pictures from the 'Illustrations of the British Flora'
>(a series of wood engravings with dissections of British plants) drawn
>by W H Fitch and W G Smith. The book we have was published by L Reeve
in
>1880.
>
>Do you know, or advise us who might know, whether we could do this
>without infringing copyright?
>
>Yours sincerely
>
>Paul Copestake
>
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