By Tiggy Johnson.   Did you know that, in Australia, copyright never expires for unpublished manuscripts? And a manuscript, in this context, could mean anything: letters, diaries, even recipes.   For researchers, that means that the only way to access such ‘work’ is to visit the archive/library/organisation where it is held. With a never-expiring copyright, nobody can (legally) make a copy, because permission can’t be obtained. Hence, these types of things aren’t going to be digitised.   Even if such … Continue reading