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Copyright status Reader Lexi has a great question about using materials that were copyrighted, but might not still be copyright-protected today. Her particular reason for asking the question is that she teaches art to children, has a book of children’s poems...Where is the public domain?
Not always where we think There’s an awful lot of confusion in the area of copyright about what is and what isn’t in the public domain. That came home in a comment by reader Sondra who said: I liked a photo from the 1800s that I saw on the cover of a book....Google prevails in copyright appeal
Google wins over Authors Guild Google Books has won the latest round in its seemingly never-ending copyright-fair use battle with the Authors Guild over digitization of books for use online. In a decision handed down Friday, the United States Court of Appeals for the...Finding those Kentucky private laws
A tip of the hat to friend Nancy So… yesterday, The Legal Genealogist had some fun outlining some of the various private laws you might be able to find in just one volume of Kentucky statutes, dating from December 1808 through February 1812. Private laws,...The limits of ownership
Thing versus copyright It’s a persistent question that has reader Sherri perplexed in trying to understand her rights to a photograph of her grandparents: the question of the difference between owning a particular thing and owning the copyright to that thing....Copyright and the photo negatives
An original question Reader Phyllis McLaughlin is a collector of old photographs and is struggling to balance her desire to use the photos she buys with the mandates of copyright law. And discovering, of course, that the balance is always more complicated than we...Credit and copyright
Following up Yesterday, The Legal Genealogist took on the topic of the copyright that genealogical speakers have in their lectures, slides and handouts. The impetus was last week’s combined Federation of Genealogical Societies and RootsTech conference, and the...Copyright and the genealogy lecture
The same rules. Really. The Legal Genealogist was dismayed to hear the comment, made by one of the many thousands of people who attended last week’s combined Federation of Genealogical Societies – RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City. But no, dear...The compendium
Copyright guide from US Copyright Office It is 1,288 pages long. It has very few graphics or illustrations. Some of it is in fairly technical language. On the downloadable version, the internal links don’t work but rather take you back to the online version. Yet...Subscribe by Email
