Message-Id: <mailto:199410040125.UAA13343@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 21:24:06 -0400 From: James W Cerny <mailto:jim.cerny@UNH.EDU> Subject: Re: copyrights To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
>> the Internet. Several of the images I'd like to use are postcards, some
>> from the early 1900s. I'm unsure about copyright regulations, though;
>> are there specific laws regarding postcards? I know the laws vary
>> for different types of print works. How many years must go by before
>> a copyright expires?
Project Gutenberg (which is making texts available) only works from books actually printed before 1911 to avoid all possibilities of copyright infringements. Weird situations can still come up, such as Peter Pan which is in a U.S.-U.K. treaty that specially assigns royalties to an orphanage! Jim Cerny, Computing and Information Services, Univ.N.H. mailto:jim.cerny@unh.edu