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. I do know that starting in March of 1998 a young man in Wilmington, Ohio by the name of Lukas P. Murphy became the editor of the East Kentuckian. I believe he bought the rights from Clayton Cox before Clayton died. Mary in Ohio