11/19 Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
2008/11/19 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2008/11/19 Michael Galpert | Aviary michael@aviary.com:
dont think that applies across the board since some of these images are being published for the first time
Really? I thought the published/unpublished distinction didn't affect that in US law.
(I'm sure someone has full legal details to hand ...)
It is indeed *published* before 1923, though we've been a bit vague about confirming this in the past. There's a very useful table of such things here:
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/
However, archives like these are still very useful - if it was made before 1923 for a news magazine, odds are high it were published quite promptly, and it's often a lot easier to take their image and confirm with a pre-1923 source than it is to ferret out the source and scan from scratch...
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It does unfortunately say on the front page that "Most were never published and are now available for the first time". I'm sure there's still some good stuff in there that was published though. (I have to admit I was unaware of the published/unpublished distinction too)
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