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From: Diana Wright <dgw1@nyu.edu>
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I may have missed a key point in this discussion, but what is wrong with 
the old-fashioned, traditional, photocopy machine?  I give my classes a 
good 20+ pages of Homer- or myth-related cartoons each semester.

DW



> KK is right about the 'instant lawsuit bait' thing, unfortunately 
> (especially for things that are syndicated, like the Far Side). I 
> have been 
> collecting a pile of urls, though, for classics-oriented cartoons 
> available 
> online (mostly from the new yorker, but a few more). I'll put them 
> together 
> on a page some time this week.
> 
> What my always-looking-for-loopholes-brain wonders, though, is 
> whether 
> other (i.e. non-syndicated ones) cartoons might not get around 
> this (for a 
> while, anyway) by some sort of 'classics cartoon of the day' thing 
> wherein 
> a new cartoon was posted everyday (and *not* archived), with 
> source 
> acknowledged where available.
> 
> Most of the big syndication sites have something about reprint 
> rights; if a 
> source is known, perhaps they'd grant such a right?
> 
> Another possibility, of course, for private distribution purposes 
> would be 
> a private archive, accessible only via password, which privileged 
> folks 
> could draw upon or a private mailing list.
> 
> dm
> 
> 

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