Dear Hansjoerg,

I do not know who owes the copyright of Rosenstein's words. Surely they are still not in the open domain (a number of years, normally 70 depending on the countries, since last publication of the words or the death of the author, whichever comes last). The repository where the paper of Rosenstein are held may know: you're lucky as they are at the LSE (http://archives.lse.ac.uk/dserve.exe?dsqServer=lib-4.lse.ac.uk&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo='0324') ) and the archivists there are extremely efficient. Once you've identified the copyright owner, you start writing letters to him/her. If you're lucky you get a positive reply. If they don't answer, you repeat the query: normally two attempts are enough to prove you are in good faith. They may still sue you, but you're likely to get away with it.

Best, Daniele



Il giorno 8-set-2010, alle ore 11.23, Hansjoerg Klausinger ha scritto:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> May I ask for help with the following copyright issue? (Unfortunately, I am not an expert in copyright-law.)
> 
> I have come about some unpublished correspondence of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan with Gottfried Haberler and Oskar Morgenstern, some letters of which I would very much like to reprint verbatim.
> 
> Does anyone know who owns the copyright to the unpublished writings of Rosenstein-Rodan? Is there any formal procedure how I can find out the identity of the copyright-owner? And what would be the correct legal way to proceed if the search for the owner were futile?
> 
> Many thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Hansjoerg Klausinger
> Associate Professor
> Department of Economics
> WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
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