Re: Copyright and yearbooks

On Thu, 1 May 1997, Carol Simpson <csimpson[_at_]tenet.edu> wrote:
>
> The book (1968) has no copyright info (in fact the district claims no
> copyright on any of its publications) nor does the yearbook publisher
> claim any copyright.

If it was published (and I would consider distribution of copies to the school students at large a publication) in 1968 with no copyright notice, it's public domain. The requirement for a notice in published copies was not eliminated until 1989.

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