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Please can you elaborate more about the legal aspects? I've scanned a lot of Chinese-language material (especially bilingual English/Chinese and dialects) and f

• bumholio 8y ago
  The original copyright is with the paper for anything published after the second world war (the exact date depends on the country). They have the sole right to decide how and when their archives are published online. Determining copyright status is non-trivial, here is an example for some US periodicals: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/firstperiod.html That being said, the paper have usually long since went under and the copyrights will never be asserted. In the extremely unlikely case they will be (for example, if the paper is still in circulation), a free online archive with no advertisements falls squarely under fair use, given the immense historical value of old papers and their nil current commercial value.
  • peterburkimsher 8y ago
    "nil current commercial value" can't be right. "He has, on occasion, been approached by companies looking to partner with him or purchase licenses to his archives. He’s turned them all down, including one offer for half a million dollars. “I knew [my collection] would ultimately be charged for,” Tryniski says nonchalantly, explaining why he declined the offer—for most people, an enormous sum of money. “I really didn’t like the idea of charging a guy to use my site, and then for them to take the biggest profit." I assume the operation used a Russian server because of the copyright issue.