Re: Who owns copyright on old computer mags?

[Len <lenc@cgocable.net>]

  Shit and I cleaned out my basement this last summer and tossed out
about 6 years of commodore magazines, run, transactor, computes
gazzette,a nd a couple other relating to the c64/128 and Amiga and all
were in like new condition, neatly filed away in boxes.

  Guess I should have kept them sound like they could have been worth a
few bucks.

Len


On Mon, 03 Jan 2000 12:14:32 -0500, Dan Gahlinger
<dan.gahlinger@bell.ca> wrote:

>What about the ever-famous (and best CBM mag ever) - that being
>TRANSACTOR?
>
>I'm in toronto (where they were based) and there's not a trace of them
>to be found.
>Thankfully I have just about every issue ever published! (still in good
>condition, except the odd one).
>
>Dan.
>
>"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