Re: Medhurst papers wsa Re: Seibt Photo

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Original poster: "Bob (R.A.) Jones" <a1accounting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ok. and I thought I was being politically correct.
I stand corrected.

No doubt Terry will delete the temp folder as soon as he gets round to it.
Mean time anyone else who wanted a copy please don't download it.

Robert (R. A.) Jones
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Subject: Medhurst papers wsa Re: Seibt Photo


> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> At 04:06 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote:
> >Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >Bob Jones sent in the Medhurst notes and they are at:
> >
> >http://www.hot-streamer.com/temp/medhurst.zip
> >
> >"Hi Ed,
> >
> >I believe I do have it.
> >Yes I found it. Four of his papers  zipped in to one file. The last one
is
> >the one you want I believe.
> >I assume there are no copyright issues as its about  fifty years old.
>
> In the past, copyright extended 50 years past the author's death.  These
> days, it's much longer due to the "Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension
Act"
> of 1998 (allegedly so that Mickey Mouse, ca 1920s, remains in copyright).
>
>
> If you wanted to be strictly legal you'd ask:
> 1) Did Medhurst do this as a "work for hire" for GE (in England), and so,
> did GE own the copyright?
> 2) It might have been publicly funded, which often (but not always) puts
> the resulting work in the public domain.
> 3) Did whoever did hold copyright assign it to the publisher of Wireless
> Engineer?
> 4) is the publisher (Iliffe and sons) still in business, and if not, have
> the rights reverted.
> 5) It's even more complex, because it was published in England, and the
> rules are different.
>
> The summary is that just because it's old doesn't mean it's out of
copyright.
>
> Medhurst was publishing papers in IEEE journals as recently as the late
> 60's, and there's some really intriguing hits on Google where it appears
he
> was involved in the Society for Psychical Research. He also wrote some
> papers (in the 1950s) on integrating functions like sinc(x), and some
> papers on rain attenuation of microwave signals. So, even on the old
> copyright standard, I wouldn't count on those papers being older than 50
> years past the death of the author.
>
> One could also buy the relevant issues of Wireless Engineer for less than
> $10.  You can get the entire year's WE bound in red cloth boards with gilt
> lettering for GBP25 from KellyBooks.  (the latter is almost certainly from
> some institutional library throwing away "all that useless junk")  It
would
> be a fine addition to any TCphile's library.
>
> Fascinating stuff.  By the way, the same publisher also published
"Wireless
> World" which published the famous paper in 1945 by Clarke on the use of
> satellites in a geostationary orbit.
> (Wireless world became Electronics World in the 90s)
>
>