[Sca-cooks] Need (international) copyright advice

[Jennifer Carlson]

Johnna wrote:
 
> I just checked my copy. The work exists as a manuscript in a sole copy 
> and this is the first publication, so this is not the case of a work 
> having been published in the 16th century and being now out of 
> copyright. The date of publication is 2009!
> 
> The only way that one has access to these recipes is through seeing 
> the original manuscript in Austria or in using these two volumes.
> 
> I think this makes a difference.
> 
> Johnna

 
An unpublished manuscript is "in copyright" for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years.  So unless the author died in 1941 or after, it is out of copyright.
 
 
Talana