[Genealib] Past Perfect Multi Media/Newspaper Copyright

[Robert Sullivan]

> Also, has anyone obtained copyright permission for a newspaper that has
> changed names and owners many times? Would the existing owner of the current
> version of the newspaper own the copyright for the now defunct papers that
> were subsumed by another publication? I am contacting the local papers as
> well as the corporate offices--just wondered if anyone else has encountered
> this issue.

I spoke with someone at one of our local papers (which had absorbed a
paper from our city) some years back and the answer was yes, they
would require permission to use anything from it.  (This was a
post-1922 paper.)

Doesn't mean they would give you a problem about it, but to cover
their rights the probably have to say that.

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library