You might try contacting the North Dakota Genealogical Society, who may know the answer to this question. I have the President's email address in my home directory, if you need it. > Lee, > > The answer to your question revolves on several different questions. > > First, while the magazine that the clippings are from no longer exists, it > is > possible that the corporate entity that PUBLISHED the magazine does still > exist. And the corporate entity would be the one to actually own the > copyright. > > Second, has the copyright been renewed or is it otherwise owned by anyone > else? A copyright is tangible - it has value. > > You may find that the answer to your question is that the copyright is > still > valid, however, there is no one with an interest in enforcing that > copyright. > > Richard > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: "L. S. King" <GenealogyFreak@comcast.net> > To: NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:39:28 -0500 > Subject: [NDGENWEB-L] defunct newspaper -- copyright? > >> Greetings all! >> >> I have a question and thought I'd ask here. >> A person has asked if they can give me clippings from an old >> newspaper that >> (as far as I've been able to find out) doesn't exist anymore. He >> doesn't have the means to scan them, sooooo he wants to just send >> them to me. The clippings are from 1927 to 1940. If the newspaper >> doesn't exist, is the copyright still in place? >> >> And -- if the newspaper doesn't exist, is there anyway to find out >> if they were bought out without writing to every newspaper in ND? I >> really don't want to take a chance on copyright infringement... ------------------------------------------------------via webmail---- Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net