Yeah, yeah. I know the copyright argument is pretty weak. But it's still
something for less well-funded places to consider. Do you want to make money
off your collection or do you want to let someone else make money off your
collection?
How would someone know if they have the only extant copies of something?
Good question. You probably can't unless you know the absolute facts about
the provenance, etc. We have the only known bound volumes of the Ocean
County Democrat and probably the only extant bound copies of the Ocean
County Sun in our collection. We know the Democrat is rare. The State of New
Jersey commissioned a newspaper survey and the only copies of this newspaper
that were found are the ones in our collection. We received the Sun from the
newspaper that bought out it's successor in the 1980s. We have the
publisher's archived volumes. We know of no other volumes and there are
volumes missing.
So one can, at times, know if there are no other copies.
As for local publications not having resale value- keep an eye on eBay.
You'd be surprised what bound volumes of newspapers can and will go for. The
older they are, the better the condition they are likely to be in, the
greater their value on the market. Buyers can be historical societies trying
to recover them for preservation, or dealers looking to disbind them and
sell the issues individually. That is where the real money lies.
Scott D. Peters
Research Director/Archivist
Ocean County Historical Society
26 Hadley Ave., P.O. Box 2191
Toms River, NJ 08754-2191
(732) 341-1880
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"Telling the Stories of Ocean County"
Historically Speaking
ALHFAM -FPIPN vice-chair for trivia, errata and miscellany
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"The ordinary distinctions in society are often vague, and imply no just
pre-eminence: rank and titles are
adventitious things and instead of designating merit or virtue, are
frequently the baubles of imbecility, or
the sparkling decorations of meretricious pageantry"
William Griffith, on behalf, and by order of the New-Jersey Society for
promoting the gradual Abolition
of Slavery, Twelfth Month (December) 20th, 1803
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrienne DeAngelis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: Microfilm Copying
> Ahhh, more copyright conundrums! Just because the museum owns copies of
> the newspapers does not mean that they have "the orginals". Even if the
> museum owns "the only extant copies"--and how would one know that--they
> still might not have the right to sell or even make such copies. This
> would of course apply also to the generous patron.
> Ok, that was bad cop. Good cop: the museum should work out with
> the patron any restrictions on making and selling copies. As I recall,
> these are local publications and even if not quite in the public domain,
> the likelihood that they have any resale value--as opposed to historical
> value--is probably pretty small.
>
> Adrienne DeAngelis, Editoress
> Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
> (http://www.efn.org/~acd/resources.html)
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