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Re: copyright questions



Individual letters are treated as unpublished manuscripts (unless someone has transcribed and published them). See the table on the Internet at:

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

for information on copyright on manuscript material. At one point, this material had perpetual copyright; one of the revisions of the copyright law set up the system where older manuscripts will come into the public domain on 31 Dec. 2002 unless they are published (by a copyright holder) before then. This table was put together by Lolly Gasaway, a copyright expert who is a librarian, and I believe also a lawyer.



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Special Collections Librarian/Archivist

(note change of address as of May 2000)
Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY  12538
(914) 451-1757 or (845) 451-1757
c_crawfo@culinary.edu

>>> Laura Zelasnic <zelasnic@USA.NET> 08/29/00 12:06PM >>>
I'm studying for the ACA exam tomorrow so this is hypothetical.  In going
over the copyright material I don't see where letters are covered.  It does
say that you can register a "collection".  So if you had an unpublished
collection of letters  or a diary which described an important event, and
someone wanted to publish them whole ala daddy longlegs, would the material
be covered by copyright to your institution?  does your institution have to
specify that the copyright reverts to them in the deed of gift?  does your
institution have to register the collection?  what about the photos? thanks
in advance for the clarifications.  Laura Zelasnic

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