Re: McGuffy Readers: Image Copyright?

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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...


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