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Re: Medhurst papers wsa Re: Seibt Photo



Original poster: "Bob (R.A.) Jones" <a1accounting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Ok. and I thought I was being politically correct.
I stand corrected.

No doubt Terry will delete the temp folder as soon as he gets round to it.
Mean time anyone else who wanted a copy please don't download it.

Robert (R. A.) Jones
A1 Accounting, Inc., Fl
407 649 6400
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Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 6:43 PM
Subject: Medhurst papers wsa Re: Seibt Photo


> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > At 04:06 PM 6/14/2005, you wrote: > >Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >Hi, > > > >Bob Jones sent in the Medhurst notes and they are at: > > > >http://www.hot-streamer.com/temp/medhurst.zip > > > >"Hi Ed, > > > >I believe I do have it. > >Yes I found it. Four of his papers zipped in to one file. The last one is > >the one you want I believe. > >I assume there are no copyright issues as its about fifty years old. > > In the past, copyright extended 50 years past the author's death. These > days, it's much longer due to the "Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act" > of 1998 (allegedly so that Mickey Mouse, ca 1920s, remains in copyright). > > > If you wanted to be strictly legal you'd ask: > 1) Did Medhurst do this as a "work for hire" for GE (in England), and so, > did GE own the copyright? > 2) It might have been publicly funded, which often (but not always) puts > the resulting work in the public domain. > 3) Did whoever did hold copyright assign it to the publisher of Wireless > Engineer? > 4) is the publisher (Iliffe and sons) still in business, and if not, have > the rights reverted. > 5) It's even more complex, because it was published in England, and the > rules are different. > > The summary is that just because it's old doesn't mean it's out of copyright. > > Medhurst was publishing papers in IEEE journals as recently as the late > 60's, and there's some really intriguing hits on Google where it appears he > was involved in the Society for Psychical Research. He also wrote some > papers (in the 1950s) on integrating functions like sinc(x), and some > papers on rain attenuation of microwave signals. So, even on the old > copyright standard, I wouldn't count on those papers being older than 50 > years past the death of the author. > > One could also buy the relevant issues of Wireless Engineer for less than > $10. You can get the entire year's WE bound in red cloth boards with gilt > lettering for GBP25 from KellyBooks. (the latter is almost certainly from > some institutional library throwing away "all that useless junk") It would > be a fine addition to any TCphile's library. > > Fascinating stuff. By the way, the same publisher also published "Wireless > World" which published the famous paper in 1945 by Clarke on the use of > satellites in a geostationary orbit. > (Wireless world became Electronics World in the 90s) > >