Copyright law is complicated, is constantly changing, and varies by country. The U.S. law was changed a few years ago and now provides 95-year coverage from first publication. The cutoff date is, I believe, 1923; that is, everything published before 1923 is now in the public domain. There are two excellent websites that deal with copyright questions. The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ British copyright law: http://ahds.ac.uk/bkgd/copyrightfaq.html Cheers. Paul Montgomery Lausanne, Switzerland