Re: Help settling a copyright question

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:22:34 -0400

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Robert E. Jones, III <rjones[_at_]robjob.com> wrote: 

>

> This is a question for all the copyright guru's on the list. A friend and
> I (both IP lawyers) are having a disagreement over a question of copyright
> renewals under the 1909 Copyright Act. I figured I would pick the
> collective wisdom of the list to see if we could come up with the answer.

I suggest that you check the book _The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More_ by Attorney Stephen Fishman (ISBN: 0-87337-433-9). Look for "Periodicals" in index and read pages under it.

> My friend believes that if the heirs had renewed the copyright themselves,
> then they would have owned it, but since they did not, then the rights
> continued with the current holder and the renewals were effective for him.

It seems that your friend is right. I say this because it seems that the author did not make any effort to claim copyright in his works. You would be right if the author registered his articles with the Copyright Office before selling them to the publisher but that seems not to be the case.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
http://www.boycottcopyright.com

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 5,606

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Wed Aug 27 2003 - 19:22:34 GMT

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