Commercial licensing

Original artwork

Our best images are in the process of being scanned (Creo IQSmart1) or photographed (Canon EOS 5D) where possible from the original artwork or original transparencies; otherwise, from the original magazines and then professionally re-touched. The files are in the form of Adobe RGB 1998 TIFFs, typically 20-50MB (prior to interpolation), with extensive meta data. Images from the original magazines that have been scanned to a lower quality can be re-scanned and professionally re-touched overnight, if required.

Licences to use our images are available as follows:

• For personal (including educational) purposes, click on the Personal use link under your chosen image, or add your images to a Project, and purchase your licenses for just £2.00 per image, by PayPal or UK cheque.
• Most of our images may be licensed for commercial purposes through the The Bridgeman Art Library by clicking on the Commercial use link under your chosen image.
• To enquire about licensing any other images we have, please click on the Commercial use link under your chosen image and complete our online request form.

Other licensable materials

As well as images, we are willing to license text, puzzles, educational comic strips and comic characters to publishers and others for re-printing, adaptation or other uses. There are few subjects of perennial interest to children that were not covered in Look and Learn or its junior version Treasure; The Children’s Newspaper is a unique record of the most eventful years of the twentieth century; and magazines such as Jack and Jill and Playhour contain an abundance of material capable of delighting the very young. Please contact us with an outline of your areas of interest.

Excluding the rights to certain comic strips (including The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire) which remain with IPC Media Ltd, we now own the rights to the following magazines, listed here in chronological order: The Children’s Newspaper (1919-65), Robin (1953-69), Swift (1954-63), Jack and Jill (1954-85), Playhour (1954-87), Harold Hare (1959-64), Look and Learn (1962-82), Treasure (1963-71), Teddy Bear (1963-73), The Bible Story (1964), Ranger (1965-66), Once Upon a Time (1969-73), Speed and Power (1974-75), and World of Knowledge (1980-81). Look and Learn also owns the rights to the annuals and other books associated with these magazines, and the annuals and books for the magazines Tell Me Why and World of Wonder.

All the rights we own were acquired from IPC Media Ltd. IPC Media’s and its predecessors’ normal business practice, in common with most other children's magazine publishers at the time, was to acquire all rights from writers and illustrators. Consequently, the copyright position on most of this material is unusually clear. However, in the case of certain adaptations, where the underlying work is still in copyright, Look and Learn’s copyright is obviously limited to the literary adaptation and illustrations.