Hmmm, I would advise them to do it under a sydonym. That way when the Newbury Arisocracy come looking for them to interfer they have a chance of escape.
Yes but who would do it? Who would decide who would do it and how would it be decided who would decide?! How many meetings would be required to decide? How many times would 'the committee' change its mind because new people had been bought along to the meeting after a decision had already been reached?
A website is being produced for Newbury costing £25,000.00 which should create a site to fullfil your requirements. Those of you who went to the Vision Conference in June should know about this site already. I understand that work on it is in advanced stages and it is due to be launched in January 2011.
A website is being produced for Newbury costing £25,000.00 which should create a site to fullfil your requirements. Those of you who went to the Vision Conference in June should know about this site already. I understand that work on it is in advanced stages and it is due to be launched in January 2011.
Perhaps we won't need the other sites after this?
Looks like this is intended to promote Newbury rather than be a historical reference site.
It will never happen in Newbury because it involves different groups working together for a common goal, something which Newbury fails miserably at on most occassions.
Hungerford has community spirit and there are less people involved which helps. On the flip side many people couldn't bear to live in Hungerford where everyone knows everyone else's business.
Hungerford's site has been put together by Hungerford Historical Association - one group. The Berkshire History site http://www.berkshirehistory.com has been put together by one guy. Why do you think that Newbury should complicate things?
Not at all - posting on here does not remove the owner's copyright. No doubt the terms and conditions of this forum state that a) any images posted are done so by permission of the copyright holder and b) that posting them automatically gives this site permission to publish them. This doesn't mean that they can be copied and published elsewhere by anyone who feels like it.
My understanding of copyright is as below.
Items that were placed into the public domain pre 1923 contain images, such as from old books and postcards, which have run out of copyright. Look inside the book at the publishing details, if the date of publishing is before 1923, one can legally scan or photograph these images and use at one's leisure. The same applies to old photographs and postcards, if the original pre-dates 1923, you can use the image for your purposes without permission or payment. Theoretically though, as Blackdog suggests, it doesn't mean that the digital image can be copied and published elsewhere by anyone who feels like it.
The complication is that the scan you make from an out of copyright resource is itself copyrightable - so your scan becomes an item to which you own the copyright. This is typical of many of the Museum's images and of all images posted on this forum.
Copyright lasts for 70 years from the death of the creator (if the creator is an individual). If the creator is a company then copyright lasts 70 years from the date of publication.
Unpublished material (eg photographs never used in a book, paper, etc) gained special protection in the Copyright Act which meant that even very old images, papers etc, had 50 years protection from the date of the Act (1985ish).
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