Comments on: Is There Any Value to Old Newspapers?

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:43:46 +0000

Tony,

Would using old clippings before the 1920s on a website be ok to do in terms of legalities or are their copyrights on newspaper content? Also I had heard 1923 as the year when items are in public domain. Is that correct for newspapers?

Deb

By: Ky

Ky — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:33:15 +0000

Take a look at what http://www.nambour-chronicle.com is doing. It’s an archive of the Nambour Chronicle & North Coast Advertiser first published in 1903. Focus seems to work here, so there you go.

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:23:20 +0000

So glad that Mr. Huggins put this info /somewhere/.
It would be nice if it were on the Paper of Record’s home page.
I have been trying to use the site for several weeks as I have committed to write something that I was hoping to use it for.
At least now I know that I can hope to see it again sometime.
Great product, for which I would be willing to pay. “Free” doesn’t help much if it’s not there.

By: support

support — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:52:42 +0000

Bob…

Thanks for clarifying! I’ve updated the article to correctly reflect your content.

Paul…

Finding historic content related to a theme (like sports events) and collecting it together on CD or in print is one possibility. Creating an ebook using the listings from births, marriages and obits is another. On the darker side…people seemed obsessed with murder and crime…you could collect articles that report on various crimes…mass murders, serial killers, etc. or even unexplained phenomena.

Tony

By: Bob Huggins

Bob Huggins — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:01:03 +0000

Tony–
Just to clear up a few factual matters and to make you aware of the world to come. Firstly, PaperofRecord.com is a free site. Our founding entity Cold North Wind Inc was the first company in the world to digitize an entire newspapers collection in The Toronto Star. The Star is ranked in the top twenty newspapers in the world topping put at 700,000 circulation. At our peak we digitized over 20 million newspaper pages.

Secondly, PaperofRecord.com partnered our content with Google in 2006 to bring you a vast collection of newspapers that will span the planet in multiple languages throughout the past 500 years. This product will appear through the summer of 2008. We are very pleased to leave our pioneering newspaper digitization legacy in the stewardship of Google, and believe strongly that they are the perfect partner for the endeavour.

Best

Bob Huggins
Founder
Cold North Wind Inc
PaperofRecord.com

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:25:19 +0000

Tony,

I was wondering how can you make money with old newspapers or even a blog. I love doing research. How can I turn this into money for me?

Paul