All,
The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities have announced the beta web interface for the National Digital Newspaper Program, intended to digitize and make freely available the contents of most historic major U.S. newspapers:
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ http://www.neh.gov/projects/ndnp.html
Currently only the contents of newspapers from a select few states during the period 1900-1910 are available, but eventually the project will encompass all U.S. regions and the entire period 1836 to 1922.
The Library of Congress does not seem to place any legal restrictions on the use of these archives for educational purposes (though it does not guarantee that other copyright holders might not have claims) and I think even the current, limited contents of the archive will be immediately valuable for reference and illustrative purposes within Wikipedia.
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On 6/19/07, Jonathan Leybovich jleybov@yahoo.com wrote:
The Library of Congress does not seem to place any legal restrictions on the use of these archives for educational purposes (though it does not guarantee that other copyright holders might not have claims)
Under US law, given the pre-1922 scope of the project, most such claims would have no validity in any case. Everything first published in the US prior to 1922 is in the public domain.
Cases where this might not apply would be photographs or articles that were first published abroad and are still in copyright there.
-Matt
On 6/20/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/19/07, Jonathan Leybovich jleybov@yahoo.com wrote:
The Library of Congress does not seem to place any legal restrictions on the use of these archives for educational purposes (though it does not guarantee that other copyright holders might not have claims)
Under US law, given the pre-1922 scope of the project, most such claims would have no validity in any case. Everything first published in the US prior to 1922 is in the public domain.
Cases where this might not apply would be photographs or articles that were first published abroad and are still in copyright there.
Well, I take my chances and already uploaded pictures for [[Harry K. Thaw]] and [[Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi]] on commons. The year pages are really helpful to find candidates :-)
Magnus
Matthew Brown wrote:
On 6/19/07, Jonathan Leybovich jleybov@yahoo.com wrote:
The Library of Congress does not seem to place any legal restrictions on the use of these archives for educational purposes (though it does not guarantee that other copyright holders might not have claims)
Under US law, given the pre-1922 scope of the project, most such claims would have no validity in any case. Everything first published in the US prior to 1922 is in the public domain.
pre-1923 -- That's why they include 1922
Ec
On 6/20/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
pre-1923 -- That's why they include 1922
Typo
thx for the correction
-Matt
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