Hey Team,
I was always cautious not to scan magazine articles and share them online (so that people would go and buy the magazine rather than get the info for free). Do we now assume that sharing content is "free-for-all" if we want to scan and post old articles?

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Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
Do we now assume that sharing content is "free-for-all" if we want to scan and post old articles?

Do you mean old articles from just Non-Sport Update or from any magazine? I wouldn't. Not that I have the ability, which I don't, but why bother?

First, I would assume that someone may still have certain rights to the article and not like it.

Second, it takes your work and your time and who knows if anybody else cares? Part of the fun of collecting anything is finding it. Too many collectors demand that everything be handed right to them and they lose the whole point of having a hobby.

It's easy to drop a link to an online site if the article is already posted and I've done that, but that's as far as I'd go. That and just providing the basic info for anyone who'd like to read it or see a picture themselves, which I think is favor enough.

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Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
Do we now assume that sharing content is "free-for-all" if we want to scan and post old articles?

Has something happened that makes you think this may be okay?

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Originally posted by Bill Mullins:

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Originally posted by make-mine-marvel:
Do we now assume that sharing content is "free-for-all" if we want to scan and post old articles?

Has something happened that makes you think this may be okay?

Between Desert spelling and this, you're on fire Bill.

I think he meant scanning and posting old NSU articles because Beckett dropped it and Collectivus didn't want it, so who could care less? And maybe no one would, but they could if reprinted without permission, at least theoretically.

I really don't know much about copyright regulations on printed material, except that you have to cite your sources or risk getting hit for plagiarism. I just think if it's not yours, don't share and you won't get in trouble.

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Originally posted by Raven:

Between Desert spelling and this, you're on fire Bill.

Yes, I'm a hunka hunka burnin' love.

I have no idea who the copyrights belong to. Did the Toser family keep the rights to older issues? Do they belong to Beckett? I know that when I wrote for the magazine, I didn't sell all rights to my articles (not that they represent some literary cash pile or anything . . . ).

As I recall discussing this with Roxanne many, many years ago, the copyrights on original articles revert back to the authors. But frankly, if my website were still active and I used an NSU article with appropriate citation(s), that would qualify as "fair use." And I might as well announce it to the general reader here: I'm undergoing a project that scans every page of every Toser NSU from the beginning until the Beckett sale. Eventually, this long-term project will find its way toward the World Wide Web. Have worked on this for several years.

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Originally posted by sthomas:
As I recall discussing this with Roxanne many, many years ago, the copyrights on original articles revert back to the authors.

Getting a little pedantic here, but the copyrights to the articles I wrote didn't "revert back" to me, because I never gave them up in the first place. I sold NSU a license to use my work in the printed version of the magazine -- the standard terminology is "first North American Serial Rights". I retained copyright, and still have it. Roxanne wanted to put one of my articles in a Wacky Packs booklet, and we worked out a deal so that could happen (essentially, I said "fine" and she gave me a copy).

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But frankly, if my website were still active and I used an NSU article with appropriate citation(s), that would qualify as "fair use."

I have no idea why you think this is the case.

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And I might as well announce it to the general reader here: I'm undergoing a project that scans every page of every Toser NSU from the beginning until the Beckett sale. Eventually, this long-term project will find its way toward the World Wide Web. Have worked on this for several years.

Be very careful how you do this. Don't just assume it's okay.

Artists and writers have a habit of wanting to own the rights to their own work forever or at least get compensation if someone else wants to reproduce it. It's fine to have a passion project, but you can almost bet that someone will object. So, lots of luck and yeah, be very careful.