Copyright questions

We work closely with copyright owners to protect their intellectual property rights. We always make our best efforts to identify the ultimate copyright owner for all in-copyright material on our site. 

If you believe that you own the copyright in any of the content on the website, and we have not recognised you as the copyright owner, please contact us and we will investigate quickly. As we investigate, we may take down the content. 

Some of the titles we publish on the British Newspaper Archive are no longer in publication. In these cases, we make all possible efforts to identify if there is a legal successor in copyright and to make content with them. If we are unable to identify a legal successor in copyright, we identify these publications as orphan works. Should you be the legal successor in copyright, please get in contact with us and we will work with you to ensure that your intellectual property rights are upheld. 

Please view our Terms & Conditions for a full statement of our approach to copyright and how we protect the intellectual property rights of publishers. 

Most newspaper images published on the British Newspaper Archive are under copyright and require the rightsholder’s permission to reproduce in any non-personal productions. These productions include, but are not limited to, TV programmes, books, exhibitions, advertisements, and other websites. You can find further information about reproducing images from the British Newspaper Archive here. 

If you believe that any content on the website is offensive, defamatory or otherwise inappropriate, please contact us and we will investigate. While we are investigating reports of inappropriate content or copyright questions, we may temporarily remove the content in question.  

If we agree that you are the copyright owner or that the content is inappropriate, we will work with you to find a solution that you agree with, or we will take the relevant part of the content off the website permanently.