Bottom post of the previous page:
I don't know about other countries. But there's a strict law in Germany:Motorsportrace wrote: ↑5 years ago I don't think that Autosprint/Motosprint/whatever scans are forbidden... right?
Let's take a photograph for instance.
The author's right is and remains personal. The photographer/author can sell the right to reproduce the picture (i.e. in a newspaper) while the author's right remaines untouched. He and only he has the legal authority to decide who might use his photograph.
The author's right remains in force for 70 (some exceptions: 50) years after the author's death.
With the death of the photographer, the author's right devolves upon his heirs.
The same goes for newspaper articles as well.
When a newspaper publishes an article/photograph, there's two possibilities:
1. The newspaper itself holds the author's right.
2. The newspaper and the author have concluded a contract that regulates the use/reproduction of said article/photograph.
Anyhow:
Scanning articles surely is not forbidden.
Publishing them is. At least with German articles under German law.
I don't see why we would have obtained these articles illegaly. Unless there's a paragraph in their terms of use that explicitly forbids people to save articles without prior registration, we haven't done anything illegal.Motorsportrace wrote: ↑5 years ago Or newspapers finds (though all the newspapers.com stuff we have, was obtained not too legally... ).
We found a way around their insanely sophisticated safety mechanism.
Joke's on us though. We're the ones too stingy to acquire the premium access to their archive.