Should images of whole newspaper pages be uploaded, or only the relevant articles? Or no articles at all?

Question

I'm wondering what the best practice is here.

I've got full page scans from a now-defunct newspaper, with announcements or obituaries on them, which I could upload as images.

Should I upload the whole page, or just crop out the relevant article?  The nice thing about uploading the whole page is that the name of paper and issue date would be part of the image.  The downside would mainly be more difficulty in finding the intended announcement, and storage space for wikitree.

Or should I not upload articles at all?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Answer 1

Setting aside the copyright issue which Mags has already addressed, it is really a personal choice. My preference is to transcribe shorter articles that are focused on a specific individual (such as obituaries). One of the reasons I like doing that is I can link to indivudal profiles or categories of the people, places, and things that are mentioned in the article/obituary.

If you do want to upload (a non-copyrighted) article, I would suggest cropping it to the relevant information, with a citation in the image and/or in either/both the image comments or in the profile's sources. If there are a lot of images on one profile the source could get 'buried' a few pages away; an image that is cropped to the relevant information could be displayed right in the biography using [[image:filename]]; I would not however display an image of a bunch of unrelated information directly in the bio.

Answer 2

I just upload the article making sure that somewhere on the image is the name of the newspaper, date, page, etc.

Answer 3

Hey Shane,

Great question.  Creating a Free Space Profile, with an index to the editions and articles might be easier to organize than actually loading images to all of them here.

I am not a copyright attorney, but I can tell you that if it was not printed prior to 1919 then it might still fall under Copyrights (US).

Somone with better knowledge, please add to this question.

Mags

Comments

And copyright in other countries is different.