Unpublished materials, new technologies, and copyright: Facilitating scholarly use

Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 259-274

  Hirtle, Peter B ^a  

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References (24)

1. Michael Les Benedict, Historians and the Continuing Controversy over Fair Use of Unpublished Manuscript Materials, 81 AM. HIST. REV. 859-81 (1986).
2. Kenneth D. Crews has discussed the importance of privacy interests in many ostensibly copyright cases. See Kenneth D. Crews, Fair Use of Unpublished Works: Burdens of Proof and the Integrity of Copyright, 31 ARIZ. ST. L. J. 1 (1999).
3. The last surviving Civil War veteran died in 1956; any letters he may have written home during the war will only enter the public domain on Jan. 1, 2027. So even in 2003, 143 years after the end of the Civil War, the researcher must be careful.
4. Kenneth D. Crews, Do Your Manuscripts Have a Y2K+3 Problem?, LIBR. J., June 15, 2000, at 38-40.
5. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/ccres.html.
6. Copyright Term Extension: Hearing on H.R. 989 before the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property of the House Comm. on the Judiciary, 104 Cong. (1995). (statement of Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights).
7. U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE, REPORT ON COPYRIGHT AND DIGITAL DISTANCE EDUCATION: A REPORT OF THE REGISTER OF COPYRIGHTS 165 (1999), available at http://www.loc.gov/copyright/docs/de_rprt.pdf.
8. Id. at 165-66.
9. COPYRIGHT BOARD OF CANADA, UNLOCATABLE COPYRIGHT OWNERS: LICENCES ISSUED BY THE COPYRIGHT BOARD OF CANADA UNDER SECTION 77 OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT, available at http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/owners/brochurecov-e.html.
10. Copyright Act (R.S. 1985, c. C-42), sec.77, http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/laws/C-42/index.html.
11. See http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess.
12. Lynn Pritcher, Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age DLIB MAGAZINE (Feb. 2000), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/pritcher/ 02pritcher.html.
13. Mike Cave et al., Copyright Clearance in the Refugee Studies Centre Digital Library Project, RLG DIGINEWS (Oct.15, 2000).
14. Mark Twain, A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, July/ Aug. 2001.
15. Steve Grant, To Twain Literary Edifice, Add A Story Newly Uncovered Mystery, Written In 1876, Will Be Published This Summer, HARTFORD COURANT, Jan. 23, 2001, at A1.
16. http://www.buffalolib.org/twain.twain.foundation.html.
17. Erik Smith, Web Battle is Latest Episode in Old-Time Radio Serials, L.A. TIMES, Feb. 16, 2001, at 16.
18. http://www.watch-file.com.
19. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/watch/locating.html.
20. Folsom v. Marsh, 9 F. Cas. 342 (C.C.D. Mass. 1841) (No. 4,901).
21. JOSEPH L. SAX, PLAYING DARTS WITH A REMBRANDT 128 (1999).
22. Id. at 42.
23. Ken Ringle, A Brush With History; Robert Sneden's Civil War Memoir Was As Unknown As Its Author. But Now It's a Different Story, WASH. POST, Dec. 20, 2000, at C01.
24. The Sneden Civil War Collection, http://www.sneden.com.