Copyright Aid

It's a minefield! I greatly appreciate your well-informed and prompt guidance through it.
With warm thanks,
Victorian_reader

Thank you very much, Andy -- most encouraging!
I see from my notes that the curator explicitly told me that copyright in unpublished photographs would only expire in 2039. This looks like a misunderstanding of what is said here under (b):
https://www.dacs.org.uk/knowledge-base/factsheets/copyright ...

Very interesting, as I have similar problems.
1. An 1890s photograph from a Victorian album bequeathed to a library. The curator would not let me re-photograph this for publication in a newsletter (despite believing my assurances that we would fully state ownership etc.) on the grounds that the ...

Many thanks, Andy, for this clear thread through the mazes of Copyright Acts.
Just for clarification in case it is helpful for others: yes, this was a photo taken in the UK by a UK photographer; and the book it appeared in was a UK publication.
(I alluded to 'multi-national hoops' because the firm ...

The photograph was taken around the early 1880s by a commercial portrait photographer who died in 1913. It was used as an illustration in a biography of the sitter, published in 1903 (not long after the sitter’s death). The sitter might well have been the person who commissioned the original ...

Thank you very much indeed, Andy, for explaining all these considerations so clearly!
Grateful Victorian_reader

I help run a literary society devoted to the works of a popular Victorian author who died in 1901. From the late 1880s their UK publisher issued this author’s works with a ‘logo’: the author’s initials in a distinctive fancy typeface, surrounded by a little decorative frame. The publisher’s name ...