Tim Padfield's response about copyright in diaries, includes:
> If the diary was created before 1 August 1989; the author is known to have
> been dead for more than 50 years; the diary is more than 100 years old; and
> the present copyright owner is unknown to the publisher, the diary may be
> published without permission.
Presumably this applies to all manuscript material - as far as I remember,
this important qualification wasn't stated in the latest Copyright leaflet I
looked at (from Worcestershire RO, I think - with apologies if incorrect).
Perhaps an expert could confirm the position.
Nat Alcock
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