@Artan42: True, sorry for the bad example. I just meant I wanted to avoid legal troubles. Depending on the country you’re in it can be tricky. Even if there is no money involved.

But I’m glad you guys understand my concerns. A friend of mine told me that someone he knew had a blog and wrote about restoring old music from LPs - the blog was taken down for “possible copyright violations”, although he never once posted any content … so he got blocked just for talking about it with others.

Sometimes I think if companies all around the world would be less interested in pursuing people/fans who just want to restore old material (music, films etc.) and instead inviting them to co-ventures (perhaps if studios would outsource basic work that could possibly done by fans) the work would not only procede more quickly but perhaps even less expensive, considering deals could be done like “ok, you help us bring the content back to life and as reward you’ll get it for free”.

Just a thought in the dark. I mean the fandom out there is pretty dedicated, I remember watching documentaries about music and films where original producers would almost every time say something like "the fans would be delighted to help, creatively / work-related and/or financially … the possibilities are infinite.