Thanks everyone for your replies to the query regarding press cuttings and copyright which I posted a few weeks ago. It was fairly clear from what everyone said that making them freely available online would be a high risk thing to do unless we had done a lot of work to identify copyright holders etc.
I have a related question. Presumably there would be no problem in us giving a physical copy of an individual press cutting to a researcher, provided we complied with the rules given here: http://www.archives.org.uk/ara-in-action/news/520-ara-shares-briefing-on-copyright-exceptions-and-limitations.html (the researcher signed a declaration regarding non-commercial use and private study etc, and any fee charged covered only the cost of making the copy).
If that is the case, would it also be acceptable for us to make copies available through our online shop, provided we had an equivalent of the declaration users are supposed to sign in the form of a box they had to tick to show they had read certain bullet points, and provided that we did not charge too much for the images? (although it is hard to determine what 'the cost of making the copy' means when dealing with digital material - downloading an image costs nothing, but could we include part of the cost of setting up the online system in the first place?)
Thanks for any advice you can give.
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