Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Washington, D.C.: U.S. vows 30M newspaper pages to go on Net

November 17, 2004 | Intellectual Property | By: Mark VandeWettering

The National Endowment for the Humanities is teaming with the Library of Congress to make 30 million newpaper pages from 1836 to 1922 available for free download over the net.

Interestingly:

The span of the joint project is limited because type faces of printers used before 1836 are too difficult for optical scanners to read, and copyright restrictions are in force on papers published after 1923.

Comments

Comment from Kevin Your Brother
Time 11/20/2004 at 1:00 am

Copyrights may be in force for papers after 1923, but probably most of the articles until the 60’s entered the public domain prior to the new nonsense.

I suppose it would be very expensive to find out wasn’t copyrighted. That’s a pity, because it was probably most of it.

Bro