BINGO! Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote: > > At 07:41 AM 2/28/00 -0500, Mariana Bean Ruggles wrote: > >The question of copyright regarding 'out of copyright' material newly > >re-issued.....either as books or as CDs has come up on my email list. > >What is the correct answer to "Is this material now covered by copyright?" > > Only new material added (such as a new index) is covered by a new copyright. > If the publisher has made images of the pages of the old material, the images > are covered by a new copyright, so you can't reproduce the images (in > excess of fair use) without permission for the next 95 years but you can > freely transcribe the information from them. > > Glenn, who is not a lawyer > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > Searchable archives at > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=copyright > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi