Re: Turn of the 20th century documents on Vinland - Shipley, Fischer & Jelic

From: Drew Nicholson (anicholson16_at_comcast.net)
Date: 06/19/04 

Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:28:29 -0500

"Inger E Johansson" <inger_e.johansson@notelia.com> wrote in message
news:WZ1Bc.3088$dx3.24240@newsb.telia.net...
> Doug,
> they aren't public domain. An article scanned from a newspaper is still
> owned by the newspaper in it's origin form no matter that the article was
> edited 100 years ago.

Um... I don't believe that's true, Inger, not for the US, anyway.

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

Specifically, if items were published before 1923, they are in the public
domain. Period. 

-- 
Drew
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"Humility is not thinking less of oneself, it's thinking of oneself less." -
Anon.

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