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Consider that the stuff I'm talking about was likely already in the public domain. Anything made by the Packard company or its employees (before 1963) would require copyright renewal to stay out of the public domain. Likely it is all in the public domain; a copyright 1950-1977 would have to have been renewed no earlier than 1978 after S-P was already long gone. It's common knowledge that a great deal of Packard materials were republished over the years and I doubt they got permission from anyone.

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Likewise the vintage ads would be in the public domain due to their age.


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Yes but we are referring to things that have already entered the public domain. Copies of public domain works gain no new copyright unless they are substantially changed.

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Dealing with republished public domain works is quite different than sampling currently copyrighted works. Questions of "fair use" and things like that are irrelevant. Obviously this would be a different conversation if I wanted to just use whole PI issues for something. Would need to reference the copyright renewal logs to see if it's still under copyright.