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[Dom]

Originally Posted by Ibrahiim al Balooshi

I had hoped that Buttins work would have passed copyright by now as has Burtons work which is freely available on the web but I see that Buttin has been rewritten under his grandson quite recently...

Thanks Ibrahiim to care about our abilities to publish or not Buttins's work
in France, the Law is very clear,

- is reputed from public field, whatever it is and have been wrote or published since over 70 years started after the death of the writter

- Charles Buttin, died before that his book be published, in fact it's his son François, using all his father's notes,
who has published the "Catalogue de la collection d'armes anciennes européennes et orientales de Charles Buttin

- this catalogue has been printed and published in 1933 (Rumilly), that mean that in 2004, no measures of copyrighted

- the book with me, is one from the first impression, with a special dedication (not for me - dated 1956) from François Buttin his son

a priori, I see no impediment, at what I did
excepted that the book has a cost-prohibitive
and, to do a complete copy, will be not fair at all for those who bought it

all the best

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Dom