The Trader Speaks - 1st issue Nov 1968

[E93]

Originally Posted by toppcat

I am actually talking about full scans of each pub. In my three decades of doing hobby research, I find the ads have just as much information as do the articles. .

I agree, they can be incredibly informative about a different historical time in the hobby. It would a huge project for somebody to scan all of these out of print publications and make them available in some way, but what an incredible resource it could be.

Do any of the lawyers here know what the copyright laws are with regard to out of print publications?
JimB

[Rickyy]

Thanks for posting the original issue Leon. I think I still have a few of mine from the mid to late 70's that I ordered as a teen. It's fun to go back and look at the prices and articles and recall the names of people from those ads. I think I found Dick Reuss and Jim Elder from those publications.

Ricky Y

[steve B]

Originally Posted by E93

I agree, they can be incredibly informative about a different historical time in the hobby. It would a huge project for somebody to scan all of these out of print publications and make them available in some way, but what an incredible resource it could be.

Do any of the lawyers here know what the copyright laws are with regard to out of print publications?
JimB

Sadly it doesn't require a lawyer. Out of print, in print it's mostly still under copyright. Of course, for some of those publications getting permission would be pretty easy. SCD is pretty much the only one that would really cost, and stuff like - I think Ive got it right- "current card prices" which was put out by legal action by Beckett. That one might be problematic.

I have a bunch of old stuff, not as impressive a collection, but I could do some scanning.

I also have a bit of a collection of hobby supplies. Various pages etc going back to 1974.

Steve B

[Rich Klein]

It was Card Prcies Update (CPU) which went out of business due to Beckett/Eckes winning the law suit. Noted hobbyist Herman Kaufmann was the attorney for the Jim Beckett and the late Dennis Eckes.

Since this board has so many lawyers, here is a link to that decision

http://openjurist.org/736/f2d/859/ec...-prices-update

CCP continued on into the early 1990's and the final "issue" of CCP was not an issue but a one-page letter in which the editor/Publihsher said amongst other things that one of his kids was a "government pet". After that, there was no more CCP.

Regards
Rich

[steve B]

CPU that's the one. I actually liked it, but they did infringe pretty seriously.

I wonder if their magazine was what prompted Beckett to come out with their own later that year?

Seems like many of the early price guides came to a poor end. There are others from that time, and I have at least one copy of most of them somewhere. I almost wrote a couple things for one of them, but I was too disorganised and by the time I'd halfway gotten my self together they were done.

Steve B