2008/11/19 David Gerard
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2008/11/19 Michael Galpert | Aviary
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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 I thought the published/unpublished distinction didn't affect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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