Re: Marvin E Frankel

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Louise Szente <lszente[_at_]tsamail.trsa.ac.za> wrote:
>
> I am situated in South Africa. I need to get copyright on a article
> written by Judge Marvin E. Frankel in 1975. The author retained
> copyright on the article.
>
> My problem is that it is very difficult for me to get more details on
> the author like address, etc. I have already received permission from
> the journal in which the article was printed but cannot trace the
> author. Can anybody tell me what the United States Copyright law
> suggests in such a case?

IANAL -- I would suppose you are bound by South African, and not United States, copyright law, if you are seeking SA publication. If SA is a Berne Treaty signatory nation, conditions would be similar.

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