Wouldn't the poems then be considered published, even though not printed?
Freya
At 10:48 AM 9/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear list,
>
>
>These poems have been posted on various educational sites on the Internet,
>always with the attribution "author unknown." They appear to be modern--
>say within the last 20 years, so they wouldn't have passed into the public
>domain.
>
>Jane la Plante
>Access Services Librarian
>Gordon B. Olson Library
>Minot State University
>Minot, North Dakota 58707
>Voice: (701) 858-3857
>FAX: (701) 858-3581
>E-Mail: laplante[_at_]warp6.cs.misu.nodak.edu
>
>On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Stephen Fishman wrote:
>
> >
> > --- Jane laPlante <laplante[_at_]warp6.cs.misu.nodak.edu>
> > wrote:
> > > Dear listmembers,
> > >
> > > I am a librarian working with a professor who wants
> > > to include two
> > > anonymous poems in a book he is writing. His
> > > publisher edited the poems
> > > out of his text because he doesn't have copyright
> > > permission to use
> > > them. So far I have been unsuccessful in tracking
> > > down the authorship of
> > > these doggerel style poems. My question for the
> > > list is: If a work is
> > > anonymous and hasn't been published, and a concerted
> > > effort has been made
> > > to determine ownership, how great a risk would it be
> > > to reprint it in a
> > > published book?
> > >
> >
> > Do you have any idea how old the poems are? If they
> > were created over 120 years ago, they are in the
> > public domain in the U.S. Anonymous works receive a
> > copyright term of 95 years from the date of first
> > publication or 12 from the date of creation, whichever
> > comes first.
> >
> >
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Freya Anderson
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