Re: Who owns copyright on old computer mags?

[Kevin Savetz <savetz@northcoast.com>]

In article 3874ba5b.55100767@news.wi.centuryinter.net, Mr. Boffo at
mister_boffo@hotmail.com wrote on 1/2/00 1:08 PM:

> 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.

In my limited experience, finding the copyright holders of those old
publications is difficult. When you can find them, they are usually happy to
give permission to put the old material online, if you don't charge for it.
Those copyright holders have inevitably moved on to other things, and don't
want anything to do with ambitious projects to put old magazines on the net.
Nor do they tend to have any of the old editorial material in digital form
any longer. So fire up that scanner.

I've received permission to put old Antic and STart magazines on the Web,
which I'm doing at www.atarimagazines.com. I've also received permission to
put material from Creative Computing online, but I haven't had the time or
energy to do anything there.

--Kevin Savetz

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