Comments on: Public Domain Performing Arts Posters At The Library Of Congress

By: Logan

Logan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:15:14 +0000

Hi Marg, I finally got around to answering your question on the following post…

http://www.PublicDomainTreasureHunter.com/LOCPostersII

Hope my answer helps!

Thanks Marg!
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By: Logan

Logan — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:26:24 +0000

Hi Marg,

Thanks for the excellent question. I started to answer here and then realized the answer would be a bit longer than I expected so I decided to release the answer as a new post. Look for that to be released over the next few days.

Thanks!
Logan

By: Marg

Marg — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:23:24 +0000

Hey Logan,
I went looking at the Library of Congress site and would like to download some of the posters. However, when I click on the link to the uncompressed TIFF version of the poster to get the larger size it comes up as a movie, not a file I can use. I downloaded the larger size poster but it is only about 800 x 1200 pixels at 300 dpi; not big enough to make a poster from.

How do you get the larger sized poster? That would really help.
Thanks
Marg

By: Juergen

Juergen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:21:02 +0000

Hi Logan, I appreciate your answer and already downloaded your PDF. Your tips are very useful for me and I see that you are an absolute professional on the PD business. Thx a million, Juergen.

By: Logan

Logan — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:49:17 +0000

Let me know if you have any questions after you get done reading the book.

About the “no commercial use” statement you are finding on the Duke University items (don’t they have some of the most incredible old ads?)…this is really a personal decision that needs to be made as to whether you are going to abide by the “rules”.

For an understanding of how we feel about the subject, see the response I made to Anita’s comment on this post.

Also, download and read this report…

http://pdthmagdl2.s3.amazonaws.com/CopyWRONG.pdf

You’ll see my personal opinions on this in the report.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks Juergen, look forward to talking with you more.

By: Juergen

Juergen — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:58:57 +0000

Hi Logan, first of all, thx for this amazing blog and the book I bought yesterday. Cost me one sleepless night but I could not stop reading;-)
I am doing a lot of things in Germany with public domain stuff and I am quite up-to-date with German copyright laws, which is pretty easy.

Now I stumbled upon these nice posters and a question came to my mind. One of my upcoming projects is a series of ebooks with old advertisments, you know tobacco, cosmetics and so on. One of the best sources I found when researching are the collections of Duke University, they are really brillant – but: most of the stuff is prohibited from commercial use. I can understand that for things published after 1923, but before? They claim copyright for stuff even from the 1900s. Can you shed some light on that and help me with you knowledge? I would really like to use some of their stuff….

Best regards and keep up the good work,
Juergen

By: Logan

Logan — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:42:10 +0000

Hi Joi, thanks. Great blog by the way, you just got one more reader ; )

By: Joi

Joi — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:28:29 +0000

Thanks for pointing these posters out – they’re outstanding!
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