Re: Who owns copyright on old computer mags?

[Doug Browning <wpg750@mb.imag.net>]

Actually, I believe you are mistaken. Elementary Electronics *did* morph into
Creative Computing. My dad used to subscribe to EE (he was interested in
refurbishing vintage radio receivers and they had a column called "Antique
Radio Corner". Another favorite was "Kathi's CB Carousal"). For awhile, it was
renamed Elementary Electronics-Including Creative Computing, and then
eventually became just Creative Computing. My dad let his subscription run out
after that, as he wasn't interested in a 100% computer magazine.

Michael Black wrote:

> In article <38791674.6F9EC400@mb.imag.net>, wpg750@mb.imag.net wrote:
>
> > Somewhere in each magazine, usually the contents page, there is usually
> > a legal paragraph which contains the info you're looking for. You will
> > find names like Hurst, Ziff-Davis, Gernsbeck, Time-Warner, etc. I
> > suggest you go to the library and look through a periodical index, or
> > the actual magazines themselves, if your library has them.
> >
> > BTW. Creative Computing was known as Elementary Electronics in the
> > 1960-70s. In those days, they covered a lot of basic electronics and
> > radio/audio material.
> >
> Creative Computing was the creation of David Ahl, in 1974.  He had worked
> for the Digital Equipment Corporation, and had worked at introducing BASIC
> into schools, and had some scheme for a personal mini-computer.  I gather
> Creative was an extension of that, and so the magazine was around when
> small computers hit the scene.  As far as I know, it was an independent
> magazine, though eventually it was bought up by one of the big magazine
> publishers, Ziff-Davis, in the early eighties when there was a computer
> magaizine boom, and a lot of independent magazines were being bought up.
> I have the tenth anniversary issue, which was a retrospective and still
> a nice reference, dated November 1984.  If that wasn't the last issue,
> it didn't last much longer.
>
> Elementary Electronics was a completely different magazine.  I'm not sure
> when it started, but I think it morphed from some other magazine, maybe
> Radio-TV Electronics, both of which were published by Science & Mechanics
> Publishing.  It morphed once, or more likely twice, before fading out,
> probably about the time Creative Computing died off.  Science & Electronics
> is one name that comes to mind, though it might be a false remembrance.
> And I think it became something with "Computer" in the title. Unlike
> Popular Electronics, that changed it's name and tried to become a
> computer magazine, and non-technical at that, I don't remember a lot
> of change in Elementary Electronics as it changed name, though of
> course computers were added, just like every electronic magazine
> added computer coverage back then.
>
>       Michael
>
> > Mr. Boffo wrote:
> >
> > > (Reposting.... sorry.. my clock was screwed up and messed up
> > > the message threading in the newsreader. Here it is again.)
> > >
> > > One of the recent developments in this age of cheap storage
> > > is the arrival of the CD-ROM magazine archive. Some comics
> > > and some magazines (like MAD Magazine) are making available
> > > on CD-ROM the pages from all their old magazines.
> > >
> > > It occurs to me that there may be a market for the old
> > > computer magazines from the 80's which have now died out..
> > > Nibble, Family Computing, A+, Compute!, SofTalk, Creative
> > > Computing, InCider...
> > >
> > > I would be VERY interested in buying a CD-ROM compendium of
> > > all pages from these old magazines. However, I have no idea
> > > who owns the copyright for the old magazines, so I have no
> > > way of approaching this idea.
> > >
> > > Maybe somebody in these newsgroups might know?
> > >
> > > Now, I COULD create a website and just upload scans from the
> > > magazines I have, but that would likely draw various legal
> > > problems which I'd rather not deal with. I would really much
> > > prefer that the actual copyright owners are involved in
> > > approving or doing something like this themselves.
> > >
> > > OTOH, posting those old mags on a website may be EXACTLY the
> > > way to find those copyright holders! ;)
> > >
> > > -Mr. Boffo
> > >
> > > Email: mister_boffo@hotmail.com
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Doug Browning
> > dougbrow@mb.imag.net
> > www.mb.imag.net/~wpg750



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