Re: fine line developer

From: Ryuji Suzuki <rs@silvergrain.org>
Subject: Re: fine line developer
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:33:20 -0400 (EDT)

> In the US, work published before 1 January 1923 is in public domain
> but anything newer won't enter public domain until 2019, except for
[...]

Actually, the book in question was purchased around 1979. If it was
written in or after 1978, life + 70yr applies. If before, the story is
complicated but there is some chance.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.html

The previous post was meant to be a more general commentary.

(I'm making a booklet on silver gelatin process, for which some useful
works are published during 20s. So I'm often annoyed by the 1923 line
because there's no easy way to figure out whether the copyright
expired for sure (there are ways to find out the contrary, though),
and also practically no way to get express permission for use of a
figure or picture in a book published in 1923 or shortly after.)

--
Ryuji Suzuki
"You have to realize that junk is not the problem in and of itself.
Junk is the symptom, not the problem."
(Bob Dylan 1971; source: No Direction Home by Robert Shelton)