Antiques and Collectibles

KrisAn asked:


My wife and I love family history and genealogy. We often run across hard-to-find genealogical records published in older rare books, sometimes self-published. We would love to find the copyright owners of these books and see if they would open it up to the public domain or a permissive license. How do we find current copyright owners, especially since most of the original authors are deceased? If we find the legal owner, what release form should they sign to allow the genealogical content or index to be made freely available on the Internet?

Trevon

heaven_sntme asked:


I recently inherited rare books dated back to the 1800’s, but have the slightest idea of how to get the best buck for them. There are soooo many of them that I have to get rid of some because I don’t have room to house them all. They are all in perfect to fair condition, and after doing light research on some of the books (author’s name…etc) I found out the actual author has books selling for 2500.00-500.00

Ernesto