Prussian Reserve Infantry

[mollinary]

Ben those are great, but do you not need the copyright holder's permission to post?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Copyright permission would depend on the percentage of the work quoted. From a dodgy memory it's 10% of the total which can be used without permission.

IanS

[Ben Waterhouse]

Good point Mollinary, I believe they are originally from a long running 1960s German uniform magazine (Heer und Tradition?) and are under 10% of the said publication.  However if this proves to be not the case I will remove them.

[Chris Pringle]

Copyright permission would depend on the percentage of the work quoted. From a dodgy memory it's 10% of the total which can be used without permission.

Sorry, Ian, but that is 100% wrong, in fact it is Myth #7:
https://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/copyright_myths

As far as images are concerned, appropriate permission is generally needed for each individual image, unless it is old enough to be out of copyright.

As far as text is concerned, there is a 'fair use' convention which is perhaps what you were thinking of. There is no hard and fast number for this (and remember rules vary by jurisdiction), and it is not a percentage. It may be considered fair use to quote a single excerpt of perhaps 200-300 words, with due attribution and acknowledgement of the original source.

Chris

[John Cook]

Very nice.  Are they already not in the public domain and available on-line?  I don't want to be drawn into a discussion on that but how do you post pictures like that?  Be that as it may, they illustrate the variety of RIR uniforms, all of which can be found, one way or another I think, in the 1815 range.  Just saw this, which I missed before - NHN3 Hanoverian Line in Cap.  They look like dead ringers for the original reservist uniform.

[Chris Pringle]

Are they already not in the public domain and available on-line?

That sounds like copyright myth #4. Just because it's online doesn't mean it should be and doesn't mean you can use it too.
https://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/copyright_myths

[John Cook]

OK.  Not my specialist subject.  As I said I don't want to be drawn into a discussion on that.