Can someone answer this person's question, which I found on another list? Notice the "Cc:" so that she will receive your reply. Thank you. Alexandra On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 03:51:44 -0500 Lucie Fritz <[email protected]> writes: > What about the copyrights on a book that is way out of print (1912) > and the publisher has been bought out by another company, which doesn't > publish books in the same domain? > > I borrowed an old book from the State Library which has a great deal > of valuable genealogical information, not only to me, but potentially > to many, many others. The book is falling apart, and needs to be > salvaged. The publisher was bought sometime in the last ten years, > and now only publishes law books, I think. > > I don't even know how to contact the origianl publisher, and the > author is long dead. What would I best do before attempting to put the > contents of the book on-line, as I have contemplated doing?