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dormouse
Half-elven
Nov 17 2010, 6:50pm
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...it's the situation as I know it to be from my experience of writing historical biographies. This is the law of copyright in the UK - the law makes a clear distinction between published and unpublished material. Unpublished material remains in copyright, so if you want to quote from an unpublished letter or diary you need to have permission no matter how old it is. In practice, if it's extremely old, the permission will normally come from the institution where the letter is kept, though when the family still hold letters they still have the copyright - on something like the Verney papers, say, which go right back to the seventeenth century (though most of those have been published already). In this case, with some of the letter writers still alive and a book covering events which are well within living memory there is no way they could publish without permission. They'd have no case at all in law and they know it.
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New Hilary Tolkien Book Cancelled
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News from Bree
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Nov 8 2010, 4:43pm
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Anybody here know the back-story on this?//
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Elizabeth
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Nov 9 2010, 12:21am
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I don't....
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dormouse
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Nov 9 2010, 10:24am
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Quite tantalizing...!
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mae govannen
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Nov 10 2010, 11:23am
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There is a hint
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squire
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Nov 10 2010, 12:29pm
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That's true...
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dormouse
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Nov 10 2010, 3:12pm
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Felt the same about that hint...//
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mae govannen
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Nov 11 2010, 6:46am
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Statement of the Tolkien Estate
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Findegil
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Nov 16 2010, 2:39pm
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Thanks for that
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squire
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Nov 16 2010, 7:10pm
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Thanks, and welcome to TORN.
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N.E. Brigand
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Nov 16 2010, 8:35pm
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Thank you
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dormouse
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Nov 16 2010, 11:11pm
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Thanks for that information.
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FarFromHome
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Nov 17 2010, 10:23am
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Surprised??
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Beren
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Nov 17 2010, 10:40am
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Yes - that's absolutely true
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dormouse
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Nov 17 2010, 12:53pm
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That makes sense.
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FarFromHome
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Nov 17 2010, 4:19pm
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"The copyright in unpublished letters is perpetual"
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visualweasel
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Nov 17 2010, 4:20pm
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It's arguable...
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squire
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Nov 17 2010, 6:07pm
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This is my guess as well
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visualweasel
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Nov 17 2010, 6:50pm
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No, it's not a guess
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dormouse
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Nov 17 2010, 6:50pm
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