Crystal Premo wrote:
Interesting. My friend has been able to obtain many things from them which were available nowhere else. Perhaps because they had never been published...Realize, though, that the Library of Congress is not allowed to share the stored copies with anybody other than viewing at the LOC, if the work is still under copyright. They don't have the legal ability to copy copyrighted works anymore than you or I do. <<
Or perhaps they were works which are old enough to be in the public domain.
Or perhaps they were national documents which don't carry a copyright.
David H. Bailey
Because of the insane 1983 Supreme Court decision RE the copyrightability of dead people's MSS, it has been LOC's policy ever since to assume that all donated MSS are the intellectual property of the donors unless proven otherwise. This is true regardless of age.
I have had terrible problems getting photocopies of the works of Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861) even though he has no surviving heirs and LOC acquired his MSS by direct purchase from an antiquarian bookseller in 1920. On two separate occasions I have had to appeal to the head of the Performing Arts Division of the library in order to make perfectly legal copies of this absolutely PD material.
Since then I have finessed the system by making printouts from microfilms of the MSS instead. LOC's vigilance apparently does not extend that far, and I've never had to ask anyone before making these printouts.
I would like to have my own copy of the microfilms, but--you guessed it--LOC will no longer make copies of the films for the same reason it won't let you copy the MSS themselves.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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