[B-Greek] Machen

Barry Hofstetter nebarry at verizon.net
Sat Sep 20 07:30:44 EDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zhang Jia Jun" <nuovocp2 at singnet.com.sg>
To: "Doug Hoxworth" <dhoxworth at charter.net>; "Albert Pietersma"
<albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Machen


> Regarding the copyright issue, if I am not wrong, according to what I learnt
> back from my days as an editor, and the feedback of ex-colleagues, when a
> book is written more than 50 years back, and it has supposedly run out of
> print, without any new reprints and such, it is relegated to the public
> domain.
>
> But that aside, using Machen is different from the copyright issue...

On copyright:

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#wci

On when materials become public domain:

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

As I recall, once a work is public domain, a particular edition may be
copyrighted, but not the original work.

My earlier email on this (which hasn't yet made it to the list) was therefore in
error.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Associate Pastor, Chinese Gospel Church
Professor of Theological and Biblical Studies
 The Center for Urban Theological Studies
         Philadelphia, PA
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1yfx7/




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