The Wigtownshire Pages, Copyright Issues
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Copyright Issues
The British Government has recently made it much easier to publish census information,
and
this is especially helpful for our web-site.
Our references:
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/g-note3.htm
1. In the Government White Paper, The Future Management of Crown Copyright, it was
announced that copyright would be waived for certain types of material which are Crown
copyright protected. One of the categories of material which is covered by waiver is
unpublished Crown copyright protected public records. "
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/document/cpy-05.
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Provision of Crown copyright public records
PRO document 15 5.5 page 6 0f 19
5.5 The Government announced in the 1999 White Paper
The Future Management of Crown copyright (Cm4300) that
Crown copyright will in future be waived in most
public records held in the Public Record Office, the
National Archives of Scotland, the Public Record
office of Northern Ireland, places of deposit of
public records appointed under the Public Records Act
1958 and any Welsh national archive that may be
established by the National Assembly for Wales.
5.5.1 Crown copyright will continue to subsist in
public records, but will not be enforced in public
records that are available to the public and that were
unpublished, or contain material that was unpublished,
at the time of when they were deposited. Users are
free to copy, index, transcribe, publish and broadcast
such Crown copyright material without formal
permission, payment of a copyright fee or
acknowledgement of copyright. The appropriate record
office's custody of the original documents must
nevertheless still be acknowledged, and the archived
document reference given.
http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/copyright.ht
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http://www.pro.gov.uk/about/co
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yright/copyright.pdf
The 2nd one is an acrobat file. If you can view it, scroll down to 7.1.1. If you
can't,
here is the relevant passage:
Crown copyright will continue to subsist in public records, but will not be enforced
in public records that are available to the public and that were unpublished, or contain
material that was unpublished, at the time when they were deposited. Examples of such
material are census returns, records of services.....Users are free to copy, index,
transcribe, publish and broadcast such Crown copyright material without formal
permission,
payment of copyright fee or acknowledgement of copyright. The appropriate record
office's
custody of the original document must nevertheless still be acknowledged, and the
archival
document reference given. Crown copyright material among non-public records in the PRO
will be treated in the same way.