Comments on: help tracking a cartoon down

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:57:49 +0000

Hmm. Once I make a cartoon of you, I'll track that down! Unfortunately, I don't know where the one you're looking for is from, however....

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 03:49:22 +0000

The Philadelphia Inquirer has an archive search for $2.95 that goes back to 1978. I'm not sure if it includes the political cartoons. Auth was a Philly boy, and I looked for his cartoons every day in the Inquirer.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:28:48 +0000

I think the way to get this information is to set a price at Google Answers. Someone there will find it for you. I'm amazed reading the answers some of these people come up with. They can find almost anything...

By: lessig

lessig — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:07:39 +0000

John, I don't read the Supreme Court as doubting that there were lots of uses of the VCR that would have been copyright infringements. The point of the opinion was that there was at least a "potential" for substantial non-infringing uses. That meant that the technology could not be regulated, even if the particular illegal uses could. Given that, the Court clearly indicated that it was a matter for Congress to resolve. Congress chose not to, wisely, imho. And its choice reveals something we should all recognize: that copyright law is not, nor has it ever been, a zero-tolerance law.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:14:18 +0000

To drag this back to the original issue a bit, I thought that the Court of Appeals in Sony got it right - copying the entire body of a work to use it for the same purpose as the author published it for, is infringement, not fair use. It makes fair use very hard to understand to say otherwise. The proper response to the undesirable consequences of this was legislation - there were a ton of bills in Congress waiting for the Supreme Court (or not) to amend copyright law to allow home taping, and I have no problem with that solution. Certainly the last 20 years have shown that the copyright owners have benefited from the copying - but that doesn't make the Supremes' read of fair use in that case right, it just shows the legislation needed amendment to reflect the new technology.

THe cartoon that Professor Lessig mentions sounds familiar but I have no line on a source. Good luck.

John

By: adamsj

adamsj — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:32:29 +0000

And that brings me to a point I thought about making earlier–have you looked at the reverse of the clipped cartoon? What’s on it–anything useful?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 Aug 2003 06:06:15 +0000

I've spent a good while looking for this. It seems as though the pre-1997 comics (when he joined Universal comics) are pretty scarce on the web. If someone finds it, consider me impressed.

The one bit of advice that I do have is that if you remember what the comic looked like (not what it depicted, but the printing) and which newspapers you were reading in college, a visit to your library may unearth the microfiche in question. Hopefully you have a student who needs research credit :)

The other option in the library are compilations of political cartoons. I know there is at least one series entitled Best Political Cartoons of $year. Chances are this one is in the 1981 edition if there is one.

As they say, lots of luck.

By: lessig

lessig — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:08:07 +0000

None of his "rights" people are able to locate it. I've written to him directly. (How cool to have an excuse to write Tony Auth.)

By: Heath

Heath — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:48:48 +0000

Universal Press Syndicate can’t track down the cartoon? Have you — or they — contacted Tony Auth himself? I’m sure you’ve already seen these:

Rights and restrictions information — http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/319_auth.html

Auth’s email at the Philadelphia Inquirer —
[email protected]

Hope that helps.

By: Josh Cogliati

Josh Cogliati — Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:15:45 +0000

If you can't find the cartoon, it might just be easier to find somebody to redraw it.