copyright ownership

We have started electronic reserves in our library and are wondering how to handle a couple of situations that have arisen. First, were does one go for permission to use material from an anthology or other collected work? The individual writers are hard to track, especially if over 15 years has passed, and the editors rarely share who has the original copyright to a work in their collection.

The second question: if the original copyright holder has died, how does one find the heirs or present copyright holder?

Thank you for your suggestions.

Rory

Rory Patterson
User Education Librarian
Cedarville University
937-766-7841
http://www.cedarville.edu/dept/ls/ Received on Mon Sep 23 2002 - 20:29:02 GMT