[8883] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: JURIS - DOJ rejects TAP FOIA Request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Selden E. Ball, Jr.)
Thu Dec 9 13:45:23 1993
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1993 13:40:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Selden E. Ball, Jr." <SEB@lns62.lns.cornell.edu>
To: sugarman@panix.com, com-priv@psi.com
X-Vms-To: IN%"sugarman@panix.com",IN%"com-priv@psi.com"
Alan,
In a recent posting to com-priv you mentioned
>Now, I ask the readers here how many private sector publishers hire a
>typesetting or printing firm and permitt the typesetter to own the
>database created. None. So, what is going on here.
Don't be too sure about that. My understanding is that the copyright
office recently ruled that, unless the contract explicitly states otherwise,
printers, not the original artists, own the copyrights to art that they
have printed. Artwork may be a special case, I suppose, since
printers frequently have to make corrections to their production
methods to get good color reproduction. Nevertheless, this is a very
scary precedent.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and have not seen a copy of this ruling.
The topic was discussed as nauseam on one of the Usenet newsgroups
to which I subscribe.
Selden
