Re: Who owns copyright on old computer mags?

[Blake Patterson <blake@blakespot.com>]

	I would sacrafice a small goat to get ahold of even just one copy of an
early-mid 80's "Creative Computing" magazine.  I've contemplated going
back to my old High School, where I know they had them, and making some
photocopies...or something...

	SO fine to recall in each issue, so many different machine that just
were doing their own thing--their own OS with their own proprietary
interfaces, etc.  The Mindset, GRiD machines, Dimension 68000, Osbornes,
etc.  Ahhh, the memories.  I'm actually surprised I got so much out of
them back then...I was only 8 yrs old in 1980.  But man...I surely did. 
I have no idea what happened to them.  Or to my many A+ mags.  My only
real treasures are some real early MacWorlds and NeXT Worlds.  I'd even
like to have my old stash of Info mags back.  I can almost feel a
tangible pain in recalling them.




bp

Kevin Savetz wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> Kevin Savetz  <savetz@northcoast.com>
> Curator of the Digital Antic Project -- Classic Atari magazines on the Web
>       http://www.atarimagazines.com
> Moderator of news:comp.sys.atari.announce -- Atari computer news
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