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Re: Tesla Coil Information and copyrights

Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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Subject: Re: Tesla Coil Information and copyrights


> Original poster: "Mercurus2000" <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
>
> I just checked my "Strange Stories from Electrical Experimenter Magazine
> 1917-1919 by Lindsay books there is no "Used with permission" with the
> reprint articles, it just gives the date for the original copyright and
> dates of the Magazine articles and a "Reprinted by Lindsay Publications
Inc"
> so there isn't gonna be a problem. Their book doesn't even have a
copyright
> on it, but scanning that would be unethical, since you can still purchase
> this book from them.

You might give Lindsay a call.  They might already have scanned images that
you could post.  You never know.

With scanning these, like I said, there are many Tesla
> books I have with small articles from Electrical Experimenter with no
"Used
> with permission" labels on any of them.

Just because someone prints something without attribution doesn't mean that
they haven't secured appropriate permissions.    There's also a fair amount
of "interpretation" when it comes to small excerpts (as in "fair use").