law on pictures

[Mark Tarver]

This is rather an off-topic post. I'm publishing a book on Chinese
philosophy and wanted to use some old pictures. The authors are long
dead but I wondered about copyright of the images involved. Does the
copyright exist on the image?

Mark

[Raoul Duke]

depends on the country/ies you are talking about publishing from? just
because somebody is long dead doesn't mean the copyright is now in the
public domain, cf. walt disney company (grrrrrrr).

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[shaun gilchrist]

If you can provide specific information I know a guy who is good at
hunting down answers about what is safely in the public domain or not.
But yeah, the answer is "it depends".

[Mark Tarver]

Thanks for that offer.  I think I've got most of the pictures now.

Mark