"JOE" wrote in message
news.com...

Last month at a garage sale Â* I came across a large stack of Popular
Electronics and other electronic magazines from the 50¹s 60¹s and 70¹s

Under US copyright law, Popular Electronics et al own the rights to all of
the material in those magazines. You do not have any legal right to sell
copies
of that material! You can quickly find yourself in trouble if you try
this - you've
made it so high profile posting here that I'm sure you'll get a 'cease and
desist'
order from PE legal eagles (does not matter if the mag is still
published -
under
US copyright law the comapany can be fully out of business but still own
the
copyright and can still sue you).

Good luck.



I'm not a lawyer by any stretch of the word - but - it seems to me that I
have heard that Copy rights are only good for so many years and have to be
renewed if the original owner intends to keep them "personal" property. Some
one may want to check on that. The person wanting to do this, should have
done his/her homework to see if it was legal before even going online with
the idea. Call the Copy right office, a local attorney, etc. Someone should
be able to direct you. Also, there may be some words of wisdom in the
magazines themselves regarding copying and such.

Lou