Re: Public Domain

On 9/25/98, Joli Sandoz <sandozj[_at_]evergreen.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm putting together an anthology, and want to use material published
> in the U.S. in both book and magazine form before 1923. Can I assume
> this material is in the public domain; that is, is there any way a
> book or magazine article first published more than 75 years ago could
> not be in the public domain? If so, how can I check the status of
> the piece? And finally, is the public domain status of this type of
> material affected when it is reprinted? (I want to use an excerpt from
> a book published in 1895 which has been reprinted twice since 1985.)

There are copyright FAQs, actually. See Laura Gasaway's table entitled "When Works Pass Into The Public Domain" at http://www.bmb.com/~bmb/ip/PubDomain.html . See also "General information about copyrights" at http://www.patents.com/copyrigh.sht and on that page, see links to Benedict's excellent site, to Carroll's Copyright Law FAQ, and to Templeton's "10 Myths about Copyright explained".

Carl Oppedahl
Oppedahl & Larson LLP
<carl[_at_]oppedahl.com>

http://www.patents.com/ Received on Sat Sep 26 1998 - 14:25:35 GMT