On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Robert E. Jones, III <rjones[_at_]robjob.com> wrote:
>
> I have done a lot of work with pulp magizines and researched a lot
> of copyright issues. My basic findings are that the magizine as
> a whole was copyrighted in the name of the publisher. Therefore,
> most of the stories, the artwork in mag, and yes probably even the
> ads, were copyrighted by the publisher (Many famous authors started
> out in the pulps -- Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert Bloch was the
> first that I can recall to have separte registrations in his own
> name. Tennesse Williams, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Raymond
> Chandler, and others had to be assigned back the rights to their
> own stories.) I also note that many, many of the copyrights on
> these pulps were never renewed. My advice would be to contact the
> Copyright office and have them run a search on the issue of the
> pulp itself.
The copyright notice in the name of the publisher covers everything but the ads. These must contain their own notices.
Stephen Fishman
<sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com>
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