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Sonja Elen Kisa
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Are the text and images of this book still copyright in the USA or Canada? Who owns the copyright?
 
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Dan Blum
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Yes, and presumably Sackson's children.
 
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Sonja Elen Kisa
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Cool, I wonder how I could contact them.
 
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Jeff Myers
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"Always rely upon a happy mind alone." Geshe Chekhawa.
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In U.S., looks like it was first published with notice in about 1969, so copyrights should be extant until 95 years later. See:

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/

Subsequent copyright registration is reported at copyright.gov as follows:

Type of Work: Text
Registration Number / Date: TX0001042238 / 1982-12-01
Title: A Gamut of games / Sid Sackson [i.e. Sidney Sackson] ; with drawings by the author.
Imprint: New York : Pantheon Books, c1982.
Description: 221 p.
Copyright Claimant: Sidney Sackson
Date of Creation: 1982
Date of Publication: 1982-10-06
Authorship on Application: new pref., rev. appendix: Sidney Sackson.
Previous Registration: Prev. reg. 1969, A149609.
Basis of Claim: New Matter: "new pref., rev. appendix."

Names: Sackson, Sidney, 1920-
Sackson, Sid
 
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Jeff Myers
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Sonja, try:

http://www.sidsacksongames.com/contact.html
 
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