Available at the New York State Library on film:

COOPERSTOWN

Cooperstown Federalist.
     OCLC: #04684065
     Published: 1809-1817
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1809:6:3-1815:2:2}
     Call number: 071 E12 84-25695 N.Y. Cooperstown

Freeman's journal (Cooperstown, N.Y. : 1819)
     OCLC: #09833256
     Published: 1819-1919
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1819:10:4-1820:12:26}
     Call number: 071 E12 84-25695 N.Y. Cooperstown

The Freeman's journal, and Otsego County advertiser.
     OCLC: #11129027
     Published: 1817-1819
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1818:11:30} {1819:7:26-8:2}
     Call number: 071 E12 84-25695 N.Y. Cooperstown

The Glimmerglass.
     OCLC: #09820311
     Published: 1909-19uu
     Frequency: Daily
     Microfilm: s={1909:7:19-1968:8:30}
     Call number: NY 74 Cooperstown 93-31669

Impartial observer (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
     OCLC: #04684059
     Published: 1808-1809
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1808:10:22-1809:5:27}
     Call number: 071 E12 84-25695 N.Y. Cooperstown

The Otsego farmer and the Otsego Republican.
     OCLC: #10928593
     Published: 1911-1972
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1911:1:6-1972:6:1}
     Call number: NY 74 Cooperstown 93-31670

The Otsego farmer.
     OCLC: #16515014
     Published: 1885-1910
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1885:12:5-1910:12:30}
     Call number: NY 74 Cooperstown 93-31670

Otsego herald.
     OCLC: #10847332
     Published: 1805-1821
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1805:9:19-1821:1:29}
     Call number: 071 E12 84-25695 N.Y. Cooperstown

Otsego herald; or, Western advertiser.
     OCLC: #09820327
     Published: 1795-1805
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1795:4:3-1805:9:12}
     Call number: 071 E12 84-25695 N.Y. Cooperstown

Watch-tower (Cooperstown, N.Y.)
     OCLC: #09999283
     Published: 1814-1831
     Frequency: Weekly
     Microfilm: s={1814:5:18, 8:18} {1815:8:10} {1816:2:1, 9:26-10:3} {1817:4:3-1819:5:31, 7:26, 8:2}
     Call number: 071 E12 84-25695 N.Y. Cooperstown
     Microfilm: s={1821:8:20-1831:11:28}
     Call number: 071 E12 84-25695 N.Y. Cooperstown

   I am not an expert on copyrights but if the paper is recent the publisher of the newspaper owns the copyright.  Otherwise I would think that it is public domain.  Interested to hear from others.

Honor

>>> [log in to unmask] 03/11/03 02:56PM >>>
Hello list,

  I have a question I hope someone can answer.

I was at SUNY Oneonta, and they had the Cooperstown, NY newspaper on
microfilm, and I ran into something I have never seen before.  At the
begining, the microfilm was copywrited by the NYS Historical Society.
Basicly saying that you can't make copies FROM that microfilm and publish
it, without consent from the NYSHS.

  Now my question is this.  I've never seen this copywrite notice on any
other microfilm.  For example. the Sidney, NY historical society has their
newspapers on microfilm, without a copywrite notice.  Does this mean that
the Sidney microfilm is not copywrited by their historical society?

Best Regards
Mike Engle

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