Magazine Copyright question

[SteveEisenberg]

Originally Posted by Pablo

The magazine I am talking about is hosted in the Internet Archive, not in the Open Library.

I missed that. Of course, they are associated.

Originally Posted by Pablo

I am interested in this particular issue because it features one of my favourite short stories: Pillar to Post, by John Wyndham.

That story is under copyright in most countries because the year of death of the author (1969) is too recent.

It is under copyright in the United States because it was included in at least one anthology which is still under copyright, The Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction (1954):

http://www.worldcat.org/title/second...n/oclc/2340717

Books published in the United States, in 1954, are only still under copyright there if the copyright was renewed. According to this search tool, The Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction was renewed:

http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html


P.S. It may also be that the entire magazine is still under copyright. But that search is too tedious and/or expensive for me to jump on, since no one seems to have digitized the periodical renewals. Ironically, the best starting point for such a search may be the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/copyrightrecords

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

I missed that. Of course, they are associated.



That story is under copyright in most countries because the year of death of the author (1969) is too recent.

It is under copyright in the United States because it was included in at least one anthology which is still under copyright, The Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction (1954):

http://www.worldcat.org/title/second...n/oclc/2340717

Books published in the United States, in 1954, are only still under copyright there if the copyright was renewed. According to this search tool, The Second Galaxy Reader of Science Fiction was renewed:

http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html


P.S. It may also be that the entire magazine is still under copyright. But that search is too tedious and/or expensive for me to jump on, since no one seems to have digitized the periodical renewals. Ironically, the best starting point for such a search may be the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/copyrightrecords

Thanks!