Re: Greetings, I am not a lawyer...

On 10/17/97, Alison Pinsler <alisonp[_at_]fox.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings, I am not a lawyer, so please bear with me. If there is an
> article and an image from a 19th century magazine, and the magazine
> is still being published today, is it possible that an article and an
> image from an 1865 issue could still be protected?

You didn't say which country's copyright laws you are asking about ... let's take a stab in the dark guess that you are asking about the US.

You picked up this magazine in the form in which it was printed in 1865? Not a modern-day reproduction of it? I'd guess the copyright in that had expired. See Ms. Gasaway's excellent table on copyright expiries at <http://www.bmb.com/~bmb/ip/PubDomain.html>. See also the US Copyright Office circular "How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work" at <gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/00/.ftppub/copyright/circs/circ22>.

But if you really care about this, you need to seek advice of competent copyright counsel.

Carl Oppedahl
<carl[_at_]oppedahl.com> Received on Sat Oct 18 1997 - 23:29:43 GMT