[meteorite-list] copyright questions - newspaper articles & correspondence

[The Tricottet Collection]

Thank you all for these very useful information. I will investigate more and let you know.

Best regards,

Arnaud

The Tricottet Collection
(Historic Minerals, Fossils & Meteorites)
http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/
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> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 21:37:49 -0500
> From: mmartin at meteoritetreasures.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] copyright questions - newspaper articles & correspondence
>
> Hi Arnaud,
>
> I've got some experience with US copyright law and will outline it the
> best I can:
>
> 1. Works published before 1978 remain protected under copyright law
> for 75 years from the date of their original publication. Works
> published on or after January 1, 1978 as protected by copyright laws
> until 50 years after the death of the author.
>
> 2. As for the newspaper no longer existing, I believe the above rule
> applies. If the newspaper company owned the copyright (i.e. the
> article was written by a staff member) then the copyright will expire
> based on it's publication date as described above. If it was reader
> contributed or written by a person who was not employed by the
> newspaper, then the author owns the copyright, and not the newspaper
> and the date of death would apply.
>
> 3. Your intended use for educational, non-commercial value would most
> likely be viewed as fair use based on the mission of your
> organization, however given the very public nature of the web and your
> desire to be as clean as possible legally, I would suggest that you
> spend a little money for advice from an attorney who specializes in
> copyright law. A few hundred dollars now could be well worth the
> savings if a disgruntled person saw their information published on a
> public website without their permission.
>
> 4. I am not familiar with copyrights laws and how they apply to
> personal correspondence. Surely documents that you have written are
> yours freely to use, however the ones written by others may be a
> different story. I'm not going to say any more on this because I
> simply don't know.
>
> There are lots of restrictions of fair use too...so be mindful that
> just because a person intends to use a published work for educational
> purposes that you can use another person's work in its entirety.
> Restrictions are in place that limit how much of a work can be used,
> even for educational purposes. There are also time limits in some
> instances, in instances known as 'spontaneous' copies. An example of
> this would be if a story was just published and waiting to obtain
> copyright permission for educational use would cause the loss of
> educational value, then fair use comes into play. Even then there are
> still restrictions on the amount of the source that may be copied and
> the amount of images that may be copies as well. In my opinion, it's
> worth getting an informed decision by someone qualified.
>
> Mind you, I am not an attorney, but simply a teacher who has done
> research on this in the past.
>
> Aloha,
>
>
> Matthew Martin
> Meteorite Treasures
> P.O. Box 164, Kaaawa, HI 96730
> www.meteoritetreasures.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, The Tricottet Collection
>  wrote:
>
>
> Dear list members,
>
> I'd like to give access on my website to transcripts of my
> newspaper articles and original correspondence related to meteorites
> (and minerals & fossils...):
>
> http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/library_met_newspapers.html
> http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/library_met_manuscripts.html
>
> However I haven't done it until now because I don't know the laws
> regarding copyrights.
>
> Would someone know if diffusing a transcript instead of a scan is legal?
> Should articles be more than 30 years old for instance?
> If the newspaper does not exist anymore, is there still a copyright?
> What is the situation for correspondence letters that I own, from
> living or deceased individuals?
>
> I'm especially looking for information related to US law, but
> also to the Italian one. I'd like to give access to a high resolution
> digital copy of the famous Walter Molino drawing of Holbrook in the
> 1946 newspaper La Domenica del Corriere, based on a copy I own.
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
> Arnaud
>
>
> The Tricottet Collection
> (Historic Minerals, Fossils & Meteorites)
> http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/
> http://www.facebook.com/TheTricottetCollection
> http://twitter.com/TricottetColl#
>
>
>
>
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