Special Collections Copy Policies and Copyright Law

Per Image Copy Charges

Photocopied or Scanned

Photocopies from Microfilm
Printer copies
Transparency or photograph paper

$.10

$.10
$.10
$.30

Patrons may request photocopies of book pages or documents by telephone, mail or email. When requesting archives or manuscript documents by email, please indicate collection name in the subject line and be as specific as possible about the document or information you seek. Don't forget to provide the address to which the copies are to be sent. We reserve the right to refuse to copy if we feel the materials are too fragile or if other restrictions apply.

Patrons who receive copies by mail will be charged the per image rate plus postage and handling (minimum $1.00). There will be a $1.00 minimum for copies sent by email and payment is due in advance. Payment may be made by cash, check, money order or charge (Visa, MasterCard, Discover).

Acknowledgements

When publishing or exhibiting from our Archives or manuscript collections, please acknowledge with the following:

Courtesy of [name of collection], Special Collections Department, Pickler Memorial Library, Truman State University

Copyright

Warning Concerning Copyright Restrictions: The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or reproduction that is not to be "used for any other purpose other than private study, scholarship or research". If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use" that use may be liable for copyright infringement.

Truman State University does not own copyright to intellectual and/or artistic properties of images or documents, published or unpublished, in any of our manuscript collections. Nor does the University have the right to grant any permissions which might be necessary under the provisions of the privacy laws. While it is not our responsibility to obtain permission for our patrons to use or publish, we will do our best to provide information that will help secure permission.

The following chart is provided as a quick reference for unpublished (manuscript) works and works published in the United States. It was originally published in Hirtle, Peter B. "Recent Changes To the Copyright Law: Copyright Term Extension," Archival Outlook (January/February 1999): 1-4, and is updated annually. The complete version includes works published outside the US, some special cases and more extensive explanations and may be found at http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm.

Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
by Peter B Hirtle

	Unpublished Works
*Type of Work*	Copyright Term	*In the Public Domain as of January 1, 2008*
Unpublished works	Life of the author + 70 years	Works from authors who died before 1938
Unpublished anonymous and pseudonymous works, and works made for hire (corporate authorship)	120 years from date of creation	Works created before 1888
Unpublished works created before 1978 that were published after 1977 but before 2003	Live of the author + 70 years, or 31 Dec 2047, whichever is greater	Nothing. The soonest the works can enter public domain is 1 Jan 2048
Unpublished works created before 1978 that are published after December 31, 2002	Life of the author + 70 years	Works of authors who died before 1938
Unpublished works when the death date of the author is not known (1)	120 years from date of creation (2)	Works created before 1888 (2)
	Published Works
*Date* of Publication	Conditions	*Copyright Term*
Before 1923	None	In public domain
1923 through 1977	Published without a copyright notice	In public domain
January 1,1978 to Marcb 1, 1989	Published without notice and without subsequent registration	In public domain
January 1,1978 to March 1, 1989	Published without notice but with subsequent registration	70 years after death of author, or if work of corporate author, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation
1923 through 1963	Published with notice but copyright was not renewed (3)	In public domain
1923 through1963	Published with notice and the copyright was renewed (3)	95 years after publication date
1964 through1977	Published with notice	95 years after publication date
1978 to March 1, 1989	Published with notice	70 years after death of author, or if work of corporate author, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation
After March 1, 1989	None	70 years after death of author, or if work of corporate author, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation

These two charts are based in part on Laura N. Gasaway's chart, "When Works Pass Into the Public Domain," at http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm and similar charts found in Marie C. Malaro, A Legal Primer On managing Museum Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998): 155-156.

1 These works may still be copyrighted, but certification from the Copyright Office that it has no record to indicate whether author is living or died less than 70 years before is a complete defense to any action for infringement.

2 Presumption as to author's death requires a certified report from the Copyright Office that its records disclose nothing to indicate that the author of the work is living or died less than 70 years before.

3 A 1961 Copyright Office study found that fewer than 15% of all registered copyrights were renewed. For textual material (including books), the figure was even lower: 7%. See current version of this chart for good sources to determine if copyright has been renewed.

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