John Mark Ockerbloom
Apr. 11, 2006
Caveats and qualifiers
•Serials may contain separately copyrighted (and separately renewed) items
–Text: Contributions to periodicals (renewal scans and transcriptions are available online)
»Inventory of these for serials would be useful too
–Images: Renewal scans not yet online, but there aren’t that many
»Low-hanging fruit for a scanning/transcription project!
•Some possible mitigating factors:
–Section 201(c) gives serial copyright holders presumptive rights to reprint contributions in original context
–Orphan works provisions might also make it easier to clear contributions
•Double-check anything you intend to digitize
–Don’t rely on me (or other non-lawyers) for legal advice
–It’s possible we may have missed renewals
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