Site Copyright Policy
Knowing a few basic rules of Copyright
protection is in order. January 1, 1978 a major revision was made in U.S. Copyright
laws and for simplicity we will look at work published before that date. As
material was published 28 years of protection attached. After the 28-year period
the owner of the work was entitled to a 67-year extension and renewal. The web
committee maintaining this site has, as a matter of policy, adopted a worst-case
scenario and assumed that all published work was granted this extension. Thus
publications dates over 95 years old may be considered public domain. For more
specific Copyright
policy employed by this website see table link
below. If you submit articles for publication on this site that contains material
by others and that material was published after 1923, a release must be secured
and included with your submittal. Otherwise follow the table link for guidance.
With the written release or in the use of public domain materials, proper credit
should be included within the articles.
See “WHEN U.S. WORKS PASS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN” by Lolly Gasway of University of North Carolina, for a quick reference table by clicking the next link.
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