(I have sometimes wished for some addendum to copyright law so that if the holder is not making the material available that the copyright looses its validity. There are certainly arguments against this but it pains me greatly when I wish to legitimately buy a book but it is out of print with no hope it will be available, or out of copyright, before I am dead. Sometimes one can buy it from a dealer in secondhand books, but that is often very time consuming and the prices may be out of proportion to reality and value. I am afraid if this loophole were opened that many would leap through it with suspicious arguments.)
Bob
At 04:36 13.03.03 -0500, you wrote:
The undisputed champ of "republishing" technical information is Lindsay Publications. I think he is currently up to the Popular Mechanics compendimum of 1923.
Regards,
Marv
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Marv Soloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I suggest you check with Hearst about that. Regards, Marv
I prefer to read the statutes and case law studies. There are many organizations which attempt to extend copyright by republishing compilations, etc. or by copyrighting photographs (copies) of art work which is now in the public domain. Those actions are a frauds under copyright law and federal felonies.
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Marv Soloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but it is my understanding that the material posted on Cameramaker - the E. M. Love article from Popular Mechanics magazine for October 1942, is copyright by Hearst
Publications -
which still owns and operates Popular Mechanics magazine. If I am
correct,
Jim Ketcheson who posted the article is in violation of that
copyright
and so is anyone who downloads it.
(As an aside, the article is interesting but archaic - there are
better
view camera construction articles and copyright free to boot)
The article is in the public domain. Since it was published in 1942, the original term expired in 1970. If the copyright was renewed for a second term, the second term would have expired in 1998. >From the Library of Congress website (www.loc.gov): "Duration Under the Previous Law" "Under the law in effect before 1978, copyright was secured either on the date a work was published or on the date of registration if the work was registered in unpublished form. In either case, the copyright lasted for a first term of 28 years from the date it was secured. The copyright was eligible for renewal during the last (28th) year of the first term. If renewed, the copyright was extended for a second term of 28 years.1 If not renewed, the copyright expired at the end of the first 28-year term. The term of copyright for works published with a year date in the notice that is earlier than the actual date of publication is computed from the year date in the copyright notice."
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