Boxing News articles

[coreygardner]

Does anyone know who owns the copyrights to Boxing News?

It has some articles I need permission to use for my book, particularly from the 1950's....

[APerno]

Does anyone know who owns the copyrights to Boxing News?

It has some articles I need permission to use for my book, particularly from the 1950's....

Can't a publisher handle that for you?

[Kalan]

The author usually needs to do the legwork...

[Boxing Prospect]

Go to the publisher of the magazine :)

[dalcumly]

You don't need permission , the content is considered to be in the ' public domain' ie public knowledge.
You should out of courtesy mention them as a reference for your content

[APerno]

Yea - the difference between quoting/citing a source and reproduction of the entire document - depends which is intended as to whether permission is needed or not.

[Kalan]

You don't need permission , the content is considered to be in the ' public domain' ie public knowledge.
You should out of courtesy mention them as a reference for your content

It's not out of courtesy.. If you don't properly reference someone else's work it's plagiarism.. and refer to APerno's comment.