Hello,

  You replied to my email on the NY State History email list about
copywrite, and I had one more question.
  I had a new idea of taking about 10-12 newspapers from 1905, and taking
interesting articles from each newspaper and making a "Scrapbook" type of
book out of it.   Obvously, with the microfilm being copywrited, I wondered
how that would reply to the actual words?  For example.  Could I retype the
artcles to bypass the copywrite  situation with the microfilm.

Obviously the newspapers are not copywrited, because anything before 1924
has lost its copywrite.

I guess I am hoping that the microfilm copywrite is JUST under the microfilm
and not the material.

Thank you for all your help with this my my previous questions.

mike engle






>From: Melissa McAfee <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "A LISTSERV list for discussions pertaining to New York State
>          history." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Copyright
>Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:58:52 -0500
>
>The following link is to a chart created by Peter Hirtle of Cornell
>University and is available on Cornell's Institute for Digital
>Collections. This provides a very good overview of when published and
>unpublished works pass into the public domain.
>
>http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
>
>If you want to publish a work that was created by someone else, it is
>your responsibility to determine whether the intellectual content is
>protected by copyright. In addition, you may need to request permission
>from the person or organization that was responsible for creating the
>physical format of the work (e.g. microfilm, book, newspaper etc.).
>Often this will be the publisher. In the case of microfilmed copies of
>newspapers, this is usually a library, historical society, or commercial
>publisher. This information will be available on the frames preceding
>the reformatted text.
>
>Should you have further questions, please feel free to contact me.
>______________________________________
>
>Melissa McAfee
>Research Library Director
>New York State Historical Association
>The Farmers' Museum
>PO Box 800  Lake Road
>Cooperstown, NY  13326
>607 547 1473 (tel)
>607 547 1405 (fax)

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