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Re: copyright questions



I wrote this just over a year ago and I still think Peter Hirtle's summary
of copyright for archivists and manuscript curators is a premium item that
should be taped to the side of everyone's PC for quick reference.  The site
cited by Christine (also below) was still working last time I checked.

Holly




On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:47:21 -0400, Holly Hodges <holly-hodges@UTC.EDU>
wrote:

>The site Christine notes below should be bookmarked by anyone who curates
manuscripts and archival material... I've referred to it countless times!
>
>Another item that I feel ought to be in every archivist's administrative
file is"
>
>"Recent Changes to the Copyright Law:  Copyright Term Extension" by Peter
B. Hirtle, in Archival Outlook, Jan/Feb 1999 issue.  This provides an
excellent background summary of what copyright details used to involve, what
it looks like now, after the 1998 extension, the various exemptions that
librarians and archivists whould be aware of, and some of the concerns that
we will have to be dealing with from now on...
>This includes a chart with more details than the site cited below,
outlining passage into public domain for a number of situations of
renewal/nonrenewal/publication with notice/publication without notice for a
myriad of combinations for material between 1923 and 1978.
>
>Truly a must!
>
>Holly Hodges
>UTChattanooga
>

>
>Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer wrote:
>
>> Individual letters are treated as unpublished manuscripts (unless someone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
>
>

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