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MilesWestern said:
If I posted a story in MR from the 1970's and credited both the author and publication with my post before the actual content? (it had no pictures)
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If you were to copy the whole article, I'd say you'd need permission first. You can quote parts of an article if you give the author and publication credit. Now the one thing I'm not sure about is how long a copyright is good for. The number 50 years sticks in my head, but even then, they can renew copyrights.

If the article was somewhere else on the net, let's say in the MR achives, it would be perfectly legal for you to put a link here to it.

That's the best I can suggest for you.
 
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Works Originally Created before January 1, 1978, But Not Published or Registered by That Date

These works have been automatically brought under the statute and are now given federal copyright protection. The duration of copyright in these works will generally be computed in the same way as for works created on or after January 1, 1978: the life-plus-70 or 95/120-year terms will apply to them as well. The law provides that in no case will the term of copyright for works in this category expire before December 31, 2002, and for works published on or before December 31, 2002, the term of copyright will not expire before December 31, 2047.
Works Originally Created and Published or Registered before January 1, 1978

Under the law in effect before 1978, copyright was secured either on the date a work was published with a copyright notice or on the date of registration if the work was registered in unpublished form. In either case, the copyright endured for a first term of 28 years from the date it was secured. During the last (28th) year of the first term, the copyright was eligible for renewal. The Copyright Act of 1976 extended the renewal term from 28 to 47 years for copyrights that were subsisting on January 1, 1978, or for pre-1978 copyrights restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), making these works eligible for a total term of protection of 75 years. Public Law 105-298, enacted on October 27, 1998, further extended the renewal term of copyrights still subsisting on that date by an additional 20 years, providing for a renewal term of 67 years and a total term of protection of 95 years.

Public Law 102-307, enacted on June 26, 1992, amended the 1976 Copyright Act to provide for automatic renewal of the term of copyrights secured between January 1, 1964, and December 31, 1977. Although the renewal term is automatically provided, the Copyright Office does not issue a renewal certificate for these works unless a renewal application and fee are received and registered in the Copyright Office.

Public Law 102-307 makes renewal registration optional. Thus, filing for renewal registration is no longer required in order to extend the original 28-year copyright term to the full 95 years. However, some benefits accrue from making a renewal registration during the 28th year of the original term.
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it's still protected by copyright but i think your safe to post it online... i think it should fall under the fair use rules.... it's a 30 year old article, whoever wrote it is most likely dead... if they were alive it's not like they are still making profit from it or anything.... if the gauge is scared to have it typed here, just scan it or type it into a JPEG and host it on http://imageshack.us/ and then paste the link, soo the gauge will not have to worry about it...

people post articles online all the time on forums and blogs... just google around some other sites. nobody is going to sue anyone and nobody is going to get in trouble over anything.... for images and text... if someone can find me a case of a forum getting in trouble over quoting an article, i'll like mail you $$$
 
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Hi Miles,
In general I'm thinking its best to not tempt copyright issues and to respect the ownership of materials. I'll confer with my co-mods about it. Thanks for asking in advance! By the way, what is the article about? Can you just describe it or does it need to be read in full for readers to appreciate?
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i've searched and searched... nobody has ever been sued for anything like this before... and i've asked a lawyer his opinion on this.... i think you guys are safe to do this... i highly doubt MR would even waste the breath to sue anyone... you arn't posting it for monetary gain or for publicity.... this might even be under fair-use

posting the article, if anything, would help promote the current sales of MR.... maybe after you post this, you can send them a bill? :D
 
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