Re: Who owns copyright on old computer mags?

["William R. Cousert" <wrcousert@yahoo.com>]

Kevin Savetz <savetz@northcoast.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>

Hi Kevin,

Do you have permission to post the entire contents of every issue of
Creative Computing, or just selected articles or sections? Do you have any
idea how copyrights last on magazine articles? It might be near the end of
some of the earlier issues anyways.

One possibility for those magazines that you were unable to contact: Scan
them and post them anonymously in binary news groups and place them on free
web servers.

-William R. Cousert
wrcousert@yahoo.com


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