Theos-Talk Archives (November 2001 Message tt00393)

Here is a quote from another maillist which discusses copyright and may 
interest some here.

"That is,
the works that are published in the U.S. before 1923 is in
the public domain."

I personally had a situation when I dealt with another well-known 
"theosophist" in the US who claimed that no one has the right to even 
disclose anything unpublished without the permission of copyright holder. 
This was the case some years ago. If this were the case, even newsmedia 
cannot report about any unpublished material. US Congress finally fixed it 
several years ago permitting quoting from unpublished material under the 
fair use doctrine. The fair use doctrine also applies to copyrighted 
material as without such a doctrine one cannot even write a review of any 
published material. I hope this info may interest someone.

mkr