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unpublished works pass into the public domain.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) _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail