Copyright is implied. Absence of written notice is meaningless. The following three sites offer good basic information. United States Copyright Office http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ The Copyright Website http://www.benedict.com/ When Works Pass Into the Public Domain, by Lolly Gasaway Nice chart maintained on the U of NC Server. http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm In order to publish or republish any material that is not public domain, written permission must be obtained from the publisher/author. That's it in a nutshell. Ellen Pack At 10:52 AM 12/29/99 -0500, you wrote: >I have searched from cover to cover on my copies of the East Kentuckian and I >cannot find anywhere that it says that it is copyrighted. Maybe I need my >glasses changed but I just can't find where it says copyright.