At 05:43 AM 11/18/99 -0800, taramark wrote: >Hello, > >I have some postcards from Belgiu, 1907. I was warned >to check the copyright before posting them to a web site. > >What is the law on this, please? For a website in the U.S., the U.S. copyright laws should apply, even for items first published in other countries. In the U.S., copyrights of other countries are protected by U.S. copyright law and vice verse, as long as the countries are signatories of the treaty developed at the Universal Copyright Convention. The text of that treaty may be found in the background explanation for 17 USC Sec. 104, Subject matter of copyright: National origin. You can get to that information by on my "Linked Index to the U.S. Copyright Code" on my copyright site. The index is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikegoad/html/code.htm Then click on the link for Sec. 104... Mike Goad (Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and the opinions expressed here are not legal advice.)