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Re: McGuffy Readers: Image Copyright?

From:Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>
Date:Friday, December 24, 2004, 0:03
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Emaelivpeith John Cowan:
> Anything published before 1923 is free. Otherwise it is almost certainly > in copyright. Details at http://www.gutenberg.org/howto/copyright-howto .
Ah, thank you for the link. My copies, like Gary's below, have a most recent copyright date of 1920, so it sounds like I should be free to post the scanned images online. :) From that link, it says (in addition to pre-1923 bein fair game) that "[a] new edition does not extend the protection of the original edition." T'ves emaelivpeith Gary Shannon:
> The online text of the first reader at Gutenberg > differs from the physical copy of the first reader, > revised edition, that I got from ebay. My copy states > the most recent copyright as 1920, but it also bears > an ISBN number, so it was printed quite recently, > without any new notation of copyright more recent than > 1920.
This is exactly the details of the edition I picked up at the bookstore. Gary, are you going to continue using the online version for translations, or switch to the dead-tree version? Since I now have the entire set, I'm considering using the books as my primary source now... -- AA (watch the Reply-To!)

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Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>