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4 hours ago, robert952 said:

Since you mentioned "antiquarian and vintage" material, I share these details to add to Chris' comments. 

 

According to the article at  this link on Publicdomainreview.org:

 

Newly entering the public domain in 2023 will be:

• works by people who died in 1952, for countries with a copyright term of “life plus 70 years” (e.g. UK, Russia, most of EU and South America);
• works by people who died in 1972, for countries with a term of “life plus 50 years” (e.g. New Zealand, and most of Africa and Asia);
• films and books (incl. artworks featured) published in 1927 for the United States. 

Thanks, appreciate it. Most of my collection is in Swedish and we have the same law; "older literature where it has been at least 70 years since the author died is free to use”. However, after just doing some research on the matter, our laws regarding snippets of copyrighted work for discussion or critique seem to differ. Here, those laws seems stricter, such as the following excerpt: "Taking a picture of a book cover or movie poster and using it in a review of the book or movie is permitted as long as the review is published in printed form, i.e. in paper form. However, permission is needed from the illustrator or photographer who made the book cover if the review is to be published digitally." (Translated from a Swedish website on copyright matters). Further research indicates this might also apply on for example places like Facebook.

Hm...

Since this is an American forum, American laws apply, so I gather the only one taking a risk in that case would be me. I'm also quite convinced that anything I would post translated text snippets and one off pictures from are from people long since gone that could care less, and of course the really dead people; those beyond the 70 years are safe. But still annoying, to be honest. I very much prefer the copyright/fair use laws of the United States.

10 minutes ago, ccoyle said:

MSW follows the copyright/fair use laws of the United States. Fair use allows short snippets of copyrighted works to be used for discussion or critique; a rule-of-thumb (not a legal standard) is about 5% of a work. The exact percentage allowable is made on a case-by-case basis only when an infringement is challenged in court. Most excerpts posted at MSW fall well within the amount allowable under fair use. Works whose copyright has expired and which are now considered to be in the public domain carry no such restrictions. In the US, copyright protections are automatic for the life of the author plus 70 years.

Excellent, that's precisely what I was hoping for. Many thanks!

I have a fairly extensive collection of books on historical ships, naval history and related, and was wondering if I may post excerpts of those, text and/or pictures, in support of posts? I’m referring to physical books that I own; most of them antiquarian and vintage that have been out of print for many years. I don’t want to infringe on any copyright issues, so I just want to make sure what the advice on this is on MSW?

Looking very good, well done!

6 minutes ago, iMustBeCrazy said:

While Allan created that thread with a question about oars he later realised it was more a discussion about the Bounty's launch and he changed the title and purpose of the thread. Your questions would indeed be welcome.

Thanks, much appreciated. I had missed the change of purpose for the thread.

54 minutes ago, oakheart said:

 

Thanks for the compliments. 
Allan and Craig are the experts here, There is a load of information on the their other logs as well. 

I'm just here having a load of fun doing some research, trying new ideas and learning new skills.

 

Question : Should all of the detailed information be collected together and put it in the "launch details" log.

Who started that log ?

was it Craig or Allan? my memory is not so good 

 

Tim

 

Thanks, I’ve been spending countless hours over the past days reading through MSW build logs on the Bounty launch. My head is going to start spinning in a day or two lol, especially considering that English is not my native language, requiring me to translate many nautical terms as I read. But it’s great fun. 
 

I was thinking the same about the “launch details” thread, assuming you’re referring to the one linked below. I have a couple of questions regarding historical accuracy for my planned build, which will be a kit bash of the Model Shipways Bounty launch, and it feels as they might belong in that thread for posterity. But at the same time I don’t want to hijack someone else’s thread. 

I'm currently planning a build of the Bounty launch, and just wanted to say that topics like this one are of immeasurable value. Kudos to everyone for sharing their research, ideas and suggestions, and to oakheart: well done so far, it's looking good!