Copyright question
- From: "Lynn H" <peanuts@[redacted]>
- Subject: Copyright question
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 12:51:36 -0500
Hi all,
I, usually a gleaner here, have a small question about copyrights.
I am happily typing poetry. The series I am doing was published in 1908,
and the author died in 1923. No problems there at all.
My question is about UN-published poetry by the same author. This was
supposed to be an 8 volume series, but she set aside the unfinished volumes
to spend her energy on other projects (she was old and had a bad heart).
We know the rest of these poems exist, as well as many others which do not
belong to the set. I have a friend who has seen them, in a library which
has all her notebooks. I am toying with the idea of going to England for
several months someday, taking a small scanner and a notebook computer. I
would LOVE to finish the remaining volumes, and perhaps another volume of
her other works. This would be online, of course, though I am also thinking
of making and selling (inexpensively) disks of her collected works.
Are these unpublished works public domain? Or would they begin a new
copyright (presumably the property of the college)? I would be willing to
negotiate a contract with the college, but I'd like to know before I start.
Lynn H
<http://www.angelfire.com/journal/SaviouroftheWorld>