Legal notice

Last updated: 19th May 2026

Copyright and Intellectual Property Notice

Vintage Poster Archives is operated by Vintage Poster Archives Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 17229210, with registered office at 167-169 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PF, United Kingdom.

Vintage Poster Archives produces digitally restored reproductions of vintage posters, curated from historical source materials. We make every reasonable effort to ensure that the works we reproduce are in the public domain in the United Kingdom and the United States, or that we hold the necessary rights to reproduce them. Our research considers the artist's date of death, publication date, country of first publication, and the prevailing copyright terms in each jurisdiction we sell to.

Notice to Rights Holders

If you are a rights holder, or the authorised representative of a rights holder, and you believe in good faith that a specific work reproduced or displayed on vintageposterarchives.com infringes your copyright, please contact us using the procedure below. We take such claims seriously and will review and respond promptly.

How to Submit a Notice of Claimed Infringement

Please send your notice by email to hello@vintageposterarchives.com with the subject line Copyright Claim followed by the work title or our product handle.

Your notice must include all of the following:

  1. An identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, including (where possible) the title, year of creation, artist or author name, and country of first publication.
  2. The specific URL or product handle on vintageposterarchives.com where the allegedly infringing material appears.
  3. Your full name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
  4. A clear statement of your relationship to the rights holder (i.e. that you are the rights holder, or that you are authorised to act on their behalf).
  5. A statement, made in good faith, that you believe use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the rights holder, their agent, or the law.
  6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury (where applicable in your jurisdiction), that the information in your notice is accurate.
  7. Your physical or electronic signature.

Our Response

Upon receipt of a complete and good-faith notice, we will:

  1. Acknowledge receipt of your notice within five business days.
  2. Promptly review the claim, including verifying the copyright status of the work in the relevant jurisdictions.
  3. Where the claim is substantiated, remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing material from vintageposterarchives.com, and remove the corresponding product from sale.
  4. Notify you in writing of the action taken.

If we conclude that the work is in the public domain, or that our reproduction otherwise does not infringe, we will explain our reasoning to you in writing. We may decline to remove the material in such cases. You retain all rights to seek further remedies through the appropriate legal channels.

Counter-Notice Procedure

If material you supplied or have an interest in has been removed in response to a third-party claim and you believe the removal was made in error, you may submit a counter-notice by email to hello@vintageposterarchives.com with the subject line Copyright Counter-Notice.

Your counter-notice must include:

  1. Identification of the material that has been removed and the location at which it appeared before removal.
  2. A statement, made under penalty of perjury (where applicable), that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  3. Your full name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
  4. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the relevant courts (the courts of England and Wales for UK-based parties; the relevant US federal district court for US-based parties), and that you will accept service of process from the original complainant.
  5. Your physical or electronic signature.

Repeat Infringement and Good Faith

We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of users or contributors who are subject to repeat or unsubstantiated infringement claims. We also reserve the right to seek damages from any party who knowingly submits a false notice or counter-notice.

Public Domain and Editorial Position

The vast majority of works reproduced by Vintage Poster Archives are out of copyright in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada at the time of reproduction, based on our curatorial research. Where a work's copyright status is unclear or contested, we may withdraw the work from sale pending resolution. We do not knowingly reproduce works that remain in copyright.

Editorial commentary, historical context, and brand-name references appearing on our product pages are made for the purposes of identification, criticism, and historical record. Such references do not imply endorsement by, affiliation with, or licence from any third-party brand or estate.

Contact

Vintage Poster Archives Ltd
167-169 Great Portland Street
London W1W 5PF
United Kingdom

Email: hello@vintageposterarchives.com

This notice is provided in addition to, and should be read alongside, our Terms & Conditions and Returns Policy.