Copyright and Social Security Application (SS5) image

Question

I have obtained (recently) a photocopy of an SS5 for a woman born in 1879, died in 1967.  May I post it, or does copyright still apply?

Comments

Did the photocopy come from the Social Security Administration? Or was the image taken from a site like Ancestry.com? If directly from SSA, they are public documents. If from another site like Ancestry, then you have to check with their usage guidelines.

Answer 1

With just a few exceptions, documents produced by the U.S. government are not eligible for copyright protection and are in the public domain.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain#U.S._government_works  Documents not protected by copyright may be posted to Wikitree.

Comments

Also, UK Government documents are covered by an open licence:

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/

Answer 2

Find out how long a copyright is good for and the last time it was renewed.

Then ask a lawyer to be sure.