Also, the copyright comes off everything in 1774...
"The public domain." Before the case of Donaldson v. Beckett, there was no
clear idea of a public domain in England. Before 1774, there was a strong
argument that common law copyrights were perpetual. After 1774, the public
domain was born. For the first time in Anglo-American history, the legal
control over creative works expired, and the greatest works in English
history-including those of Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, Johnson, and
Bunyan-were free of legal restraint
http://lsolum.blogspot.com/
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From: "Holland, Jeff" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 8 April 2004 Thursday 11:08
Subject: Medicine and Madison Ave link
I thought some people on this list might ffind this website useful. It is a
collection of images of medical advertising from the early twentieth century
and on, including some ads that illustrate packaging. perhaps more
interesting (to me, anyway), is how the products were marketed. you may find
it can shed light on consumer behavior if you have a site that produces a
lot of one kind of medical product. the website is searchable by name of
product, and can be browsed by category, year, etc. Very interesting stuff!
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mma/
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