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.
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
Willow ,'Never Leave Me'
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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?
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
Sparky1 - Dec 10, 2008 10:41:34 am PST #3990 of 10000
Librarian Warlord
Headlines are probably covered by copyright (there's been no determination -- if they were found to be titles, they wouldn't be covered, but there's a good enough chance the courts wouldn't consider them a title).
IMHO, and my law degree is certainly very, very dusty, if you spread your headlines among different papers and don't copy any of the article that goes with them, it's going to be considered de minimis -- the courts won't concern themselves with a trifle.
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smonster - Dec 10, 2008 10:42:29 am PST #3991 of 10000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hey Seaniekins.
I'm feeling really agitated and kind of out of it. Chocolate and mindfulness are not helping. Ideas?
Sean K - Dec 10, 2008 10:42:41 am PST #3992 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
t makes out with everybody
Trudy Booth - Dec 10, 2008 10:43:02 am PST #3993 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
::bites smonster::
smonster - Dec 10, 2008 10:44:44 am PST #3994 of 10000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Sparky! Congrats, my friend. That is wonderful news. Congrats from amyth as well.