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<DIV>In a message dated 8/24/2008 8:30:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
rayp6217@comcast.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>For
myself, I do not plan to publish anything, but as for the possible copy of the
1851 map for another lister, I can find no original copyright holder to
contact. What little I know (or think I know) about copyright law, would
indicate that the map, itself, has become public domain even if it was
originally copyrighted. If anyone has any further info oncopyright and the
length of time a copyright lasts and if and how many times it can be renewed,
I think it would be pertinent to Oregon genealogy as all of us are always
making photocopies of pictures and documents for our research and a few even
plan to publish their work.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>As I understood the original requester, it was for a photocopy of a map
from a copyrighted book.</DIV>
<DIV>Even though the map itself might have been a government map and in the
public domain, the book</DIV>
<DIV>itself (or that particular compilation of maps) was copyrighted. That
copyright would last 50 years </DIV>
<DIV>past the author's death -- or 75 years, unless renewed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The other thing the original requester stated was that this was to go into
a work that is being</DIV>
<DIV>published. There is where the care needs to be taken. Copying a single page
from a book for one's</DIV>
<DIV>personal genealogy (with proper citations) is usually classed as "fair
use". However, publishing</DIV>
<DIV>is quite another thing.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I am certainly not a copyright authority, but I do have at my genealogy
desk a copy of "The Copyright</DIV>
<DIV>Handbook, How to protect & Use Written Works" by attorney Stephen
Fishman, Fourth Edition published in 1997.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Recently in our community, there was interest in using a lithographed fair
poster from a 1914 event,</DIV>
<DIV>altering the image and using it as new. I just happened to see that it
originally came from Fair</DIV>
<DIV>Publishing Co., went on line and found that the company started in 1880 and
has been continuously</DIV>
<DIV>in business since that time. I contacted them and, indeed they still own
the rights to that lithographed</DIV>
<DIV>image. They would reproduce and sell it to us again, but we could not
reproduce and alter it.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
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