Does anyone know where I could find a searchable index for the "Woodturning Design" magazine?
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Woodturning Design Index
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john lucas
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Woodturning Designs went under a few years ago. I don't know if there is an index.
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Woodworking Design had a printed index in their magazine that was updated annually I believe. It wasn't exactly comprehensive. If you do a Google search you can see a couple sample blurry page images.
john lucas
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I gave away almost all of my magazines. I kept the ones that had my articles. If it happened to be one of those I can print a copy if I can find it.
I have archived a pdf current to October 2012. I guess since the company is out of business it is OK to post? Back around the year 2000 I started collecting Woodturning information and have about 4 Gb in about 60 different folders according to the various aspects of turning.
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Copyrights don't expire just because a magazine goes out of business or the holder dies, etc. You really ought to contact the current copyright owner (Joe Herrmann? or publisher?) for permission/forgiveness. 
Are not copyrights only valid if they are enforced? I thought of dropping a note to Joe when I saw this originally. Is the publisher still around? I thought the whole organization closed up. I still have all my issues.Copyrights don't expire just because a magazine goes out of business or the holder dies, etc. You really ought to contact the current copyright owner (Joe Herrmann? or publisher?) for permission/forgiveness.
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I think that you're confusing copyrights with patents. With the advent of the digital age unauthorized copying became so rampant especially with software that an international treaty led to the US Congress passing the Digital Millinium Copyright Act of 1998 which put some teeth into enforcement. One provision of the law gives copyright owners the power to send a "Takedown Notice" to the online service provider which requires them to block the offending website. Other countries have similar statutes.