On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:11:30 +0100, Andrew Gray wrote:
Minor general quibble: retaining copyright on material published hundreds of years ago is certainly likely to be legally dubious (the oldest somewhat-legally-defensible claim I can think of is stuff published ~150 years ago, and even then IIRC they lost). Material *written* hundreds of years ago and not published, however - if a collection of Elizabethan letters found in a country house, as occasionally happens, are transcribed and printed, the publisher/editor gets a copyright of twenty years or so in most jurisdictions
Yup, good point. [[Publication right]] for those who care.
But if you discuss ancient academic journals as we did in this sub-thread, publication rights do not apply.
Roger