Re: a cartoon and two poems

On 10/12/99, Mary Lou Neighbour <mneighbo[_at_]mc3.edu> wrote:
>
> I am requesting the collective wisdom of the list! As the copyright
> resource person for our College library, I have been contacted by a
> faculty member who wants to put a tutorial on-line, which will be
> available to her students on the College website without password
> protection.
>
> She wants to use a cartoon drawn by Tom Batiuk and Tom Armstrong
> which appears in a book published in 1981. The cartoon also has the
> credit "Field Enterprises, Inc, Field Newspaper Syndicate." She has
> been unable to track an address for the Field Newspaper Syndicate (or
> Enterprises, Inc.), but she is going to contact the book publisher.
> And though I found information on the web about Tom Batiuk, I have
> been unable to track an address for him or for a cartoonist named
> Tom Armstrong. Any ideas on where we should go from here would be
> appreciated. Is there a clearing house for cartoon copyright?
>
> From a compilation of poems, the same instructor wants to use an
> anonymous poem of a couple of stanzas in length. I assume she is free
> to use this.
>
> The instructor also wants to use a poem that she photocopied some
> time ago from a source which she does not remember. There is no author,
> but there is a statement that it was reprinted from the London Sunday
> Times, 3 January, 1965. According to UK copyright, is it necessary to
> get permission for the use of this? I have checked various yellow page
> websites to try and get an appropriate address for the Times, as well as
> going to the Times website, where there is only the ability to contact
> the webmaster and those concerned with the operation of the present-day
> newspaper. If it is necessary to gain permission, can anyone in the UK
> give us an appropriate address to contact the Sunday Times re. the use
> of this poem?

Cartoons formerly owned by Field Enterprises or Field Newspaper Syndicate now are owned by King Features Syndicate. The address is: 235 E. 45th Street, New York, NY 10017. Phone: 212-455-4000; Fax: 212-682-9763. Their web site is <http://www.kingfeatures.com/>.

Carline Haga
<carline.haga[_at_]thomson.com> Received on Wed Oct 13 1999 - 16:33:49 GMT