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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4673428, member: 82322&quot;]In the United States, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1976" rel="nofollow">Copyright Act of 1976</a> eliminated the renewal requirement.&nbsp; Other countries may have never had a renewal requirement.&nbsp; Books on ancient coins typically did not have a US edition, and foreign copyright law probably applies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spink has done the right thing by keeping the books in print, re-issuing them on CD-ROM, and registering with the <a href="https://www.copyright.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.copyright.com/" rel="nofollow">Copyright Clearance Center</a> per-page fees for academic use.&nbsp; We should treat their copyrights with respect.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have little sympathy for the copyrights of out-of-print works that are not registered with the center.&nbsp; A good strategy might be to download out-of-print works and buy new books from living authors rather than trying to track down obscure titles from the mid 20th century on the second hand market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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