An excellent point.
A further point: If the 501c3 owned the copyright and has dissolved, then it isn't around to sue you for infringement anyway. On the other hand, the copyright might remain with the individual authors of the articles. Speaking only for myself, if someone wanted to copy/post old articles I wrote for numerous journals, I'd be happy to see them do it - it would be the publishers they need to worry about my that case. So a defunct publisher seems like a very small threat.
In any case, it sounds like the matter is about to get resolved favorably.
Full disclosure: I'm not a lawyer! But I do know a lot of lawyer jokes.
Bob
On Sunday, May 10, 2020, 08:04:36 AM EDT, Cynthia Mueller via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
If a person Googles up the question of ‘once the decision has been made to dissolve, the nonprofit must stop transacting business, except to wind down its activities. Any remaining assets must be used to pay debts and liabilities. If assets remain after paying debts, the nonprofit, if it is a 501C3, must distribute them to another 501C3 organization.’ A former officer of the organization can’t just pick and choose what to disperse or hoard. And there are numerous other comments on Google about this particular topic.
Cynthia W Mueller
> On May 9, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Tim Eck via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
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> A few hours ago. I forget the organization he said was scanning them.
>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:32 PM ds429 via pbs <
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>> When did Herb say that?
>>
>> Dell
>>
>> On Saturday, May 9, 2020, 04:00:26 PM EDT, Tim Eck via pbs <
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>> Herb said it would all be online shortly.
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 3:39 PM Michael Mace via pbs <
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>>> I think several of us reached out to the IBS at various times. In 2013,
>>> soon
>>> after the IBS and its website shut down, I talked with Herb Kelly, the
>> guy
>>> who had been in charge of it. He had saved a backup of the website (which
>>> had a lot of articles) and was very confident that they were going to
>>> restart the org and post everything themselves.
>>>
>>> Google Books has scanned some old issues of Herbertia, back to 1984. But
>> it
>>> doesn't have permission from the IBS to expose the full text; all you can
>>> get is little snippets.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know Herb? I'll try pinging him again, but it might work best
>>> if
>>> someone has a personal relationship with him.
>>>
>>> By the way, I think we're in a similar situation right now with the
>>> Indigenous Bulb Association of South Africa. They had a great journal for
>>> many years, and I do not think Google has scanned it. I pinged them a
>>> couple
>>> of times about digitizing their journal. They seemed interested at first,
>>> and then stopped responding.
>>>
>>> It would be worth trying with them again, if someone has a strong contact
>>> there.
>>>
>>> You can lead a horse to water...
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> San Jose, CA
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