[meteorite-list] copyright questions - newspaper articles & correspondence
From: The Tricottet Collection <tricottetcoll_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 07:33:35 +0000 Message-ID: <BLU117-W205DC971E0B3D561465101DD810_at_phx.gbl> Thank you all for these very useful information. I will investigate more and let you know. Best regards, Arnaud The Tricottet Collection (Historic Minerals, Fossils & Meteorites) http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/ http://www.facebook.com/TheTricottetCollection http://twitter.com/TricottetColl# ---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 21:37:49 -0500 > From: mmartin at meteoritetreasures.com > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] copyright questions - newspaper articles & correspondence > > Hi Arnaud, > > I've got some experience with US copyright law and will outline it the > best I can: > > 1. Works published before 1978 remain protected under copyright law > for 75 years from the date of their original publication. Works > published on or after January 1, 1978 as protected by copyright laws > until 50 years after the death of the author. > > 2. As for the newspaper no longer existing, I believe the above rule > applies. If the newspaper company owned the copyright (i.e. the > article was written by a staff member) then the copyright will expire > based on it's publication date as described above. If it was reader > contributed or written by a person who was not employed by the > newspaper, then the author owns the copyright, and not the newspaper > and the date of death would apply. > > 3. Your intended use for educational, non-commercial value would most > likely be viewed as fair use based on the mission of your > organization, however given the very public nature of the web and your > desire to be as clean as possible legally, I would suggest that you > spend a little money for advice from an attorney who specializes in > copyright law. A few hundred dollars now could be well worth the > savings if a disgruntled person saw their information published on a > public website without their permission. > > 4. I am not familiar with copyrights laws and how they apply to > personal correspondence. Surely documents that you have written are > yours freely to use, however the ones written by others may be a > different story. I'm not going to say any more on this because I > simply don't know. > > There are lots of restrictions of fair use too...so be mindful that > just because a person intends to use a published work for educational > purposes that you can use another person's work in its entirety. > Restrictions are in place that limit how much of a work can be used, > even for educational purposes. There are also time limits in some > instances, in instances known as 'spontaneous' copies. An example of > this would be if a story was just published and waiting to obtain > copyright permission for educational use would cause the loss of > educational value, then fair use comes into play. Even then there are > still restrictions on the amount of the source that may be copied and > the amount of images that may be copies as well. In my opinion, it's > worth getting an informed decision by someone qualified. > > Mind you, I am not an attorney, but simply a teacher who has done > research on this in the past. > > Aloha, > > > Matthew Martin > Meteorite Treasures > P.O. Box 164, Kaaawa, HI 96730 > www.meteoritetreasures.com > > > > > > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, The Tricottet Collection > wrote: > > > Dear list members, > > I'd like to give access on my website to transcripts of my > newspaper articles and original correspondence related to meteorites > (and minerals & fossils...): > > http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/library_met_newspapers.html > http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/library_met_manuscripts.html > > However I haven't done it until now because I don't know the laws > regarding copyrights. > > Would someone know if diffusing a transcript instead of a scan is legal? > Should articles be more than 30 years old for instance? > If the newspaper does not exist anymore, is there still a copyright? > What is the situation for correspondence letters that I own, from > living or deceased individuals? > > I'm especially looking for information related to US law, but > also to the Italian one. I'd like to give access to a high resolution > digital copy of the famous Walter Molino drawing of Holbrook in the > 1946 newspaper La Domenica del Corriere, based on a copy I own. > > > Thank you for your help, > > Arnaud > > > The Tricottet Collection > (Historic Minerals, Fossils & Meteorites) > http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/TheTricottetCollection > http://twitter.com/TricottetColl# > > > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Wed 04 May 2011 03:33:35 AM PDT |
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