query about copyright

[nataliek at UALBERTA.CA]

Dear Fellow list members,

I'm looking for some illustrations and would love to use lubki.  I know 
that a number of folklore books have used lubki as illustrations.  Here 
is the question (or rather questions): are lubki in the public domain?  
If not, who holds the copyright?  What about lubki that have been 
reproduced in books?  Who owns those?

On a related topic, does anyone know of books with drawings that could 
be used to illustrate Slavic folklore?  I have found photos that are 
outside copyright restrictions.  But some drawings would be nice, 
especially for beings of the imagination like the domovoi/domovyk, 
leshii/lisovyk, etc.  Again, these have to be in the public domain.  
This means published before 1923.

Thanks in advance.

Natalie Kononenko

Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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