Monday, December 17, 2007

Public Domain

Color xeroxed from a small photo in the pages of Husmodern's article about the mission to search for lost Swedes in the United States, Julius Wellhagen and Otto R. Carlstrom stand, between them the 1938 announcement board outside First Lutheran Church where is lettered, white on black, that the Swedish Service will be Sunday and feature Kykoherde Wellhagen - the pastor's lettered name is Carl Rydell, who was still minister in the 1950's. The page is on a bulletin board at First Lutheran Church in December 2007. This treatment of material is allowable within the context of an educational purpose and with contained use. Distribution is piracy. According to the public library, public domain begins after about seventy-five years.

My perspective on controlled use includes my observation that if control was complete, no creative work would ever be viewed people.

2 comments:

Joseph Duemer said...

This is exactly right. Poems are made out of other poems.

Laura Jensen said...

Ever so happy to see comments from Joseph Duemer at any time - a professional educator and poet with the blog Sharp Sand.