I can't remember whether Native Hawaiian was a separate category or not
It's usually not. Native Hawaiians are still fighting for the sovereignty that is granted to Native Alaskans and Native Americans.
You've got my support. Just think of me as...as your... You know, I'm searching for 'supportive things' and I'm coming up all bras.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
juliana - Dec 10, 2008 10:21:12 am PST #3980 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Barb - Dec 10, 2008 10:27:20 am PST #3981 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
Okay, question for the hivemind, especially those of the legal and/or librarian like persuasion. What, if any, are the copyright restrictions on old newspaper articles/headlines?
Here's the thing-- the story I'm currently working on is set in 1964-5 and I'm having a devil of a time giving a real sense of the time without using the 2x4 of "OMG, the Beatles, EEEEEEEE!!!" or somesuch. So I thought if I could put a headline or a leadline from an article before every chapter-- or every two or three chapters-- it would be a cool way to alert the reader to not only the time period, but where we are in the story, how much time has elapsed. (It can be a real sticky issue when you're writing in First Person since the narrator isn't necessarily going to be thinking "Wow, three weeks has passed since X happened.")
Anyhow, is that something that would come under public domain after a period of time or if, say, the newspaper is no longer in existence, but I could find a scan on the internet of what a headline from January 1, 1959 would have looked like?
HALP
Trudy Booth - Dec 10, 2008 10:30:53 am PST #3982 of 10000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I think small snippets like that come under "fair use".
You're not reproducing the bulk of a work, you're not portraying it as your own... someone more legal should weigh in to be sure though.
smonster - Dec 10, 2008 10:34:38 am PST #3983 of 10000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hi, Bitches. What's the haps?
Aims - Dec 10, 2008 10:37:31 am PST #3984 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t tackles smonster, flourishes her with kisses.
amych - Dec 10, 2008 10:37:58 am PST #3985 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Barb, it's not in the public domain (I think the counter is all the way up to 1923 on that? At any rate, way before the 60s...), and the newspaper's current existence doesn't matter either way. HOWEVER, the kind of brief quotation you're describing is widely considered to be fair use even though the material is copyrighted -- just as you could reference "Dewey Defeats Truman". Write what you want, keep a list of where the headlines come from, and let the publisher's rights office sweat it if they worried that the use isn't fair.
amych - Dec 10, 2008 10:38:22 am PST #3986 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
SMONSTER!!!
Sean K - Dec 10, 2008 10:39:05 am PST #3987 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
t tacklehugs Aims and smonster
smonster - Dec 10, 2008 10:39:28 am PST #3988 of 10000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Empress kisses, yay!
Hi amych. You around over the holidays?
Aims - Dec 10, 2008 10:39:44 am PST #3989 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
t flourishes kisses on Seany