[time-nuts] MIT RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES 1940-1945 (28 VOLS) on eBay

jmfranke jmfranke at cox.net
Wed Jul 13 15:05:50 UTC 2011


The original series was copyrighted 1947 by McGraw-Hill Book Company. The 
agreement with the government was the copyright would later be lifted. I 
know in 1964 the grey colored small size book series were printed by Boston 
Technical Publishers, Inc. with no copyright.

John WA4WDL

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From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:23 AM
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] MIT RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES 1940-1945 (28 VOLS) 
on eBay

> On 7/13/11 6:55 AM, J. Forster wrote:
>> there is a Yahoo Group, MIT-Rad-Lab-Books where you might get lucky on 
>> the
>> missing volumes.
>>
>> There was a complete, scanned set on two CDs around also. The copyright
>> status is unknown though.
>>
>
>
> Have to check for sure, but they might be non-copyright.  Were they funded 
> by the U.S.Govt, for instance?
>
> (from one web page, which I recognize is not authoritative, "After the end 
> of World War II, the United States government continued to pay key people 
> who had worked at the Radiation Laboratory for six months to enable them 
> to write about their work.")
>
> on the other hand, one would think that it would be readily findable on 
> the web if it were out of copyright.  THere are links to sites which no 
> longer exist, so methinks it's in copyright and MIT is out assiduously 
> asking people to take down their copies when they find them.  (they tend 
> to be at researchy kinds of places.. Jefferson Labs, UCSD, etc.)
>
> The CDs themselves are almost certainly copyrighted..
>
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