Re: unpublished manuscripts

From: Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:17:44 -0700 (PDT)

• "Robert A. Baron" <robert[_at_]studiolo.org> wrote:
  > Documents and letters composed by an artist who died
  > before 1920 lie
  > unpublished in a private archive. According to Lolly
  > Gasaway's chart, these
  > works, if unpublished by the end of this year will
  > pass into the public
  > domain in 2003.
  

Unpublished works created by authors who died before 1932--not 1920-- will enter the public domain on 1/1/03.

> Question one:
> Is this chart applicable just for US works to be
> published in the US, or is
> it generally applicable for, say, European works as
> well?

It applies to all countries, not just the US.

> Question two:
> Transcriptions and photocopies of documents held in
> a private archive exist
> outside of the archive. If a scholar who received
> these facsimiles wishes
> to publish them in 2003 (and, assuming they are in
> the public domain as of
> that year), does the archive have any control over
> administering the right
> to publish?
>

Once a document enters the public domain anyone can publish it. An archive would have no control over this.

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