>I knew that the 75 years rule was not a problem Not to pick on Mike, but this is a common misconception. *There is no 75 year rule* and hasn't been for more than four years. When the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act was passed in 1998 by the entertainment industry's lackeys in Congress, the duration became 95 years. Since the Supreme Court just upheld this two months ago in Eldred v. Ashcroft, no materials will enter the public domain until 2019. Of course, there's nothing preventing Disney et al. from lobbying them to extend it again and again. Pre-1923 materials are still free to use, aside from the image issues we've been discussing here. Post-1922 items may be, but you'd have to research that on a case by case basis, and that's where sites like <http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/cce/> come in handy. It's a project to scan the list of copyright renewals at the Library of Congress. These are scanned images; transcriptions may be found at <http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ccer/ccer.htm>. Further information may be found in "Library Digitization Projects and Copyright" by Mary Minow, who is both a librarian and a lawyer and eminently qualified to discuss this subject. <http://www.llrx.com/features/digitization.htm> Bob Sullivan <[log in to unmask]> Schenectady County Public Library (NY) <http://www.scpl.org/> Schenectady Digital History Archive <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>