Sylvia Else <syl...@email.invalid> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Sylvia Else <syl...@email.invalid> wrote
>>> Peter Jason wrote
>>>> Sylvia Else <syl...@email.invalid> wrote
>>>>> Peter Jason wrote
>>
>>>>>> Specifically old school photos, at school, of decades ago.
>>
>>>>> Did you take the photographs?
>>
>>>> I took many, but not all.
>>>> I have given copies to the school "archive department".
>>
>>>> How many years must pass before I can scan & publish the old school
>>>> journals, in pdf, with OCR for searching?
>>
>>> It's going to be at least 70 years after the journals were originally
>>> published, and considerably longer if the authors of the journals are
>>> identifiable. Unless you get the permission of the copyright holder -
>>> probably the school.
>>>
>>> For the photographs you took, you will hold the copyright unless you
>>> transferred ownership to someone else. You can publish the photographs
>>> you hold the copyright on.
>>>
>>> To publish the others, you would need to get the permission of the
>>> copyright holders.
>> Wrong as always with school class photos. Those have an implied right to
>> copy and post anywhere you like.
> Cite?
Don’t need a cite for that, just have enough of
a clue to realise that when kids were always free
to pay for their own copy of their class photo,
that implied right has always been there.
It may have been different in that soggy little
frigid island you had enough sense to leave,
but that the way it has always been here.