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Please note well that there are some websites which make copyright claims for which the rights belong to others, and in some cases the implication is that their copyright (for their digitized images) is The Copyright. This is not true. The copyright of the underlying artwork is usually claimed by the heirs of the artist in images which have not fallen into the public domain.
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