British copyright for a book written then is is for fifty years after the death of the author. Now best guess is that the author is well and truly dead (and most books written then usually are out of copyright). So find the author's date of death and if it is out of copyright you should provide these details to the authority that houses the book. That aside if the book is out-of-print (and one would guess that is!), then you are entitled to one copy of the book for your personal use. So there are two avenues to getting action. If it is still in copyright then you need to find to whom the copyright has been ceded, either by specific action of the author, or by the estate of the author. Good luck there. Try the publishers. Regards Andrew On 8 Nov 99, at 21:16, Valerie Rosalind Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have been trying to locate a book called The Langstaff's of Teesdale & Weardale: History of a Yeoman Family. author George Blundell LONGSTAFF. > It is a bibliography of the Longstaff/Langstaff name with pedigrees etc. > I managed to locate it at the British Library, where they said they could photocopy it for me, but I have to get copyright permission in writing, the book was published in 1906. They gave me an addres to wrtie to for assistance, but they never replied, so I am stuck as to how and where to get copyright permission to copy the pages of this book. > Can anyone please help with this query. > Regards > Val Bailey > [email protected] > > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >