The relevant copyright law, presuming you are in the United States and not France, should be ours here in the U.S. (although the internet complicates everything). You're probably already familiar with US law, but for the record: the important questions for U.S. copyright law are 1) When was the work published; 2) is it ascribed to an individual (or group) or a corporate author like "the diocese of Lyons"; 3) if written by an individual, when did he die? US copyright generally protects a work for 75 years from the death of a personal author or 75 years from date of creation by a corporate author. I honestly don't know how the law treats translations or how far the fair-use exception extends for out-of-print materials.
Paul | 03.31.08 | #

Heh! I was so involved in your site's content that I read the Paypal button as the Papal button.
Intelligencer | Homepage | 03.31.08 | #

Shawn, do you have any ritus bracarensis in pdf or something?
gdr | Homepage | 04.01.08 | #