At 06:57 PM 6/22/98 -0500, Karl Seitz wrote: >>David Crane asked: >>Just for the record, does anyone know how long newspaper copyrights >>last? >It gets more complicated before 1978... >Copyrights before 1964 would have been granted for a period of 28 years >with the right of the copyright holder to renew it for a second period of >28 years. That's a total of 56 years. However, I seriously doubt that many >newspapers renewed such copyrights if they had even bothered to copyright >their contents prior to the law that came into effect in 1978. So, for all practical purposes, any newspaper published before 1964 in the USA, especially one that does not specifically claim copyright, is no longer copyrighted. Now chances are poor that anyone would want to quote such a large portion that they would violate a copyright, but it's nice to knowwhere the line is drawn. Dave Crane Houston, Texas