Posting Written Material from defunct magazines & such???

[ddgaff1132]

So what the heck am I asking here??? Well so far just today, I've seen Brian (Palitoy) post several pages here from coloring books with copyrighted material. Also Mego-Jim has a link to scans of the Toy Fair Charley Flatt tutorial on making custom Mego's. I'm not clear on the legal pro's and cons of this activity. All that aside, If it's no big legal hassle; Maybe somebody could post other cool old magazine stuff.
I was a big fan of magazines like Starlog, Famous Monsters, Fangoria and other fanzines from the 70's-80's. I think the publishers of these magazines are all out of business. Knowing the crowd here (Collectors) I bet somebody probably has a crate of these old mags in the attic. I'd love to re-read the articles written about movies of our youth: IE Star Wars, Star Trek, Tron, The Black Hole, Superman and add your favorite movie title here.
I'm probably ask too much. Though It would be cool to know these articles are forever saved and accessible here in cyberspace.

[palitoy]

What I do with the colouring books falls under "Fair use" and I am not sure anybody cares.

I'm not sure wholesale scanning magazines is a super great idea, although I'm pretty positive that such things already exist if you look hard enough. Yeah publishers may be out of business but somebody still owns all those starlogs, Monster Times, Fangoria (still being published) and actually Famous Monsters is now running again.

[ddgaff1132]

What I do with the colouring books falls under "Fair use" and I am not sure anybody cares.

I'm not sure wholesale scanning magazines is a super great idea, although I'm pretty positive that such things already exist if you look hard enough. Yeah publishers may be out of business but somebody still owns all those starlogs, Monster Times, Fangoria (still being published) and actually Famous Monsters is now running again.

Hey Brian. Cool to hear some of these fan mags still exist. But as for my idea. I was just interested in the individual articles related to the above mentioned films. Not the whole book. I know alot of published material can be grabbed from newsgroups and such, But past experience has shown that ya miss one file-segment and its a useless exercise.
PS. On the coloring book thing. Are you looking for clean mint books or are ones that are, Shall we say; Partially used Okay???

[jimsmegos]

With the scans I put up, I really didn't think too much of it. The mag's history but if I ever got a cease and desist I'd pull 'em. I don't think that would happen though. They are shared for the sake of history in the hobby.

[mazinz]

So what the heck am I asking here??? Well so far just today, I've seen Brian (Palitoy) post several pages here from coloring books with copyrighted material. Also Mego-Jim has a link to scans of the Toy Fair Charley Flatt tutorial on making custom Mego's. I'm not clear on the legal pro's and cons of this activity. All that aside, If it's no big legal hassle; Maybe somebody could post other cool old magazine stuff.
I was a big fan of magazines like Starlog, Famous Monsters, Fangoria and other fanzines from the 70's-80's. I think the publishers of these magazines are all out of business. Knowing the crowd here (Collectors) I bet somebody probably has a crate of these old mags in the attic. I'd love to re-read the articles written about movies of our youth: IE Star Wars, Star Trek, Tron, The Black Hole, Superman and add your favorite movie title here.
I'm probably ask too much. Though It would be cool to know these articles are forever saved and accessible here in cyberspace.

Virtually all of the magazines you have mentioned have had either the entire magazine run or near the entire run fully scanned, cover to cover and are all out there in the digital world. You will find most of them in .cbr or .cbz format, which is the most known comic book reader format (those being the pages as jpegs or something else in a winrar or winzip archive).

I can tell you that the original run for Famous monsters and many of its off shoots have all been scanned 100%. Starlog has had a ton but not so sure how complete. Fangoria so far have al lbeen scanned up to whatever current issue is out there.

If you post a page or two of older ads this technically falls under fair use. Honestly no one will care about that unless you scan the entire issue and throw it up and someone has a problem with it (like current issues of fangoria, obviously)

[thunderbolt]

Famous Monsters of Filmland is still around

http://famousmonsters.com/

[hedrap]

You're only in any kind of "violation" if you scan and offer complete issues. Individual articles fall under Fair Use.

Ads are fair game, whether they are forty years old, or from this week. They're ads, not intellectual property.