[WikiEN-l] Copyright question - illegal publications

[Justin Cormack]

On 10 May 2006, at 03:04, zero 0000 wrote:

>
> I'm hoping someone here can help non a copyright issue.
>
> I want to post a translation (probably on Wikiquote) of
> an article of just over a page that appeared in an illegal
> newspaper in 1943.  There is no author given and the
> underground organization which published the newspaper
> disbanded in 1948.   The article has substantial historical
> importance.
>
> Can I do it legally?  I can't see any explicit clauses in
> copyright legislation that would exclude illegal publications
> from copyright protection, but it is the sort of thing that
> might have come up in court cases.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.

If you make the translation, thats no problem at all. The
original author has no rights over translations.

Justinc