Re: Who owns copyright on old computer mags?

[cht@NOSPAMgis.net (Rev. Jihad Frenzy)]

In article <3874ba5b.55100767@news.wi.centuryinter.net>,
mister_boffo@hotmail.com (Mr. Boffo) wrote:


> 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.

ALL my Gazettes and RUN and AHOY and diverse other CBM magazines were
destroyed in a basement flood.

A CD of Gazette and COMPUTE!, if nothing else. would get me to open my
checkbook without hesitation.

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history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." -- Mitch
Ratcliffe, Technology Review, April 1992
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