--- Forwarded Message from Beth Secrist <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 13:16:30 -0400
>From: Beth Secrist <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Copyright query

Hello fellow LLTIers!

Has anyone had experience with what happens to
copyright when the publisher no longer exists? We
have a video "Spanish TV Commercials. Vol I"
published by Gessler Publishing Co. I phoned them
and they are no longer in business. The company
that answered at their number had purchased their
inventory, but not the rights to their
publications. We would like to digitize this
video. What can we do?

Beth Secrist
Director, Language Resource Center
Dept. of Modern Foreign Langs. & Lits.
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN  37996
(865)974-6494; [log in to unmask]
http://web.utk.edu/~mfll/LRC/