Re: How can they do this?

Subject: Re: Re: How can they do this?

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: : Recently some websites have begun selling individual old magazine articles : : for a couple dollars per download. Some of the magazines in question : : only pay for First North American Serial rights when they buy the articles. : : How is it that these websites can claim to have gotten the right to sell : : the articles in an archive, when the copyright should have reverted back : : to the individual writer? Apparently contacting them does not make them : : remove the content -- they claim to own it. I am totally confused. Is there : : something the writers can do? : Dear Jan, : There is a lot of infringement on the web. Once a patent, trademark or copyright has been registered action can be brought for infingement. : I used to believe that a magazine copyright on a article would give tne author a right on the copyright on the magazine. I have seen recent case that raise doubts as to this status of the law. I have not research this recently. : You have to know what you are doing when you are published and also see what your agreement says. : M. Arthur Auslander : Auslander & Thomas-Intellectual Property Law Since 1909 : 505 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 : 212-594-6900, fax 212-244-0028, aus@auslander.com : ELAINE's Workshop (sm) : E arly L egal A dvice I s N ot E xpensive

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