Re: Copyright and yearbooks

On Thu, 1 May 1997, Carol Simpson <csimpson[_at_]tenet.edu> wrote:
>
> One of our schools was having a retirement party for some teachers and
> they wanted to make photocopy enlargements of some old yearbook photos
> of the retirees for a display. The local copy shop refused saying the
> book was copyrighted. 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.
>
> What is the status of the work, and how can these folks get their copies
> made?

     If the book was published in 1968 and did not contain a copyright message, it entered the public domain. Anyone is allowed to copy it.

Ralph Clifford
Associate Professor
S. New England School of Law
rdc at world dot std dot com
<rdc[_at_]world.std.com> Received on Fri May 02 1997 - 20:00:27 GMT