Pulp Art Work - copyright?
a.human
the covers of the various pulp comics/mags have lost their copyright? Does
anyone know?
I'd like to use them with slight alterations for a magazine cover.
Thanks in advance for anyone that can provide me with info.
Amanda
www.skeptic.com
Spider9137
the covers of the various pulp comics/mags have lost their copyright? Does
anyone know? >>
Some of it is probably public domain, much of it is copyrighted. In some cases
the copyright owners either don't care, or it isn't worth going into federal
court because a guy made ONE postcard, or a handful. In some cases, the
copyright holders may not be aware of the infringement (yes, even on the web
and internet).
Although, I wonder if some copyright holders aren't waiting, allowing the
infringers to establish a track record of infringement before sueing for big
money. One comic-store owner and small-press publisher (whom I knew personally)
had to take a second mortgage on his house when the owners of Godzilla sued him
in the 1980s, for a small press book. Not much was happening with GODZILLA, and
still isn't, so the general consensus was that they earned the lion's share of
their money by sueing people for copyright infringement.
Cat Savage Woman Of Bronze
<a.h...@mindspring.com> writes:
>With all of the pulp postcards and pulp on CDs, I'm wondering it this means
>the covers of the various pulp comics/mags have lost their copyright? Does
>anyone know?
>
>I'd like to use them with slight alterations for a magazine cover.
>
>Thanks in advance for anyone that can provide me with info.
To answer your question, try this site:
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
And remember, it's always polite to ask-most times they say yes.
>^..^< Frozencat
=============
"I'm afraid you're both out of your league boys, because you're looking at a
woman that owns her own harpoon."
(Leele from FUTURAMA-Sunday nights on FOX 6pm CST)