Rights and takedown

Write to rights@pulpworld.org . You do not need a lawyer, a form, or any particular wording. Tell us:

• a link to the page, or the magazine title and issue date;
• which material you mean — a cover image, a scanned issue, or a whole run;
• what right you hold, briefly;
• how to reach you.

We act on requests promptly, and we do not require you to prove your claim before we act. If it turns out a request was mistaken, the material can be restored just as easily.

Removal hides the images and any scanned files from every visitor, signed in or not. Downloads of withdrawn material are refused by the server, not merely hidden from the page.

The catalogue entry itself stays: the magazine’s title, its date, its volume and number, and who published it. Those are facts about a published work, and keeping them is what makes this a catalogue rather than a gallery. The page shows a notice in place of the artwork saying it was removed at the rights holder’s request. If you want the entry removed as well, say so and we will discuss it.

The catalogue draws its titles, dates and issue numbering from published bibliographies of the pulp magazines, chiefly the Galactic Central index maintained by Phil Stephensen-Payne. Bibliographic facts of that kind — what was published, when, and by whom — are not themselves owned by anyone.

The cover images are a different matter. Many American pulps published before 1964 lost copyright protection when it was not renewed, and a great deal of this material is in the public domain. Some is not. Where a work is still in copyright, we rely on this policy and on removing anything a rights holder objects to.

Cover art was often published unsigned, and attributions in the pulp field are frequently informed guesses. Every credit here carries its confidence — whether the work is signed, confirmed from a reliable source, or simply attributed — so a guess is never presented as a fact.

If you are an artist, or represent one, and a credit here is wrong or missing, write to the same address. Correcting the record matters to us as much as removing material does.

Where complete scanned issues are available, access requires an account, and the files are served through short-lived links rather than published addresses. These are the items most likely to be in copyright, and the ones we will withdraw most readily on request.

This page is a statement of how the site is run. It is not legal advice, and it does not claim that everything here is free of copyright — nobody could honestly claim that about a body of work this large and this poorly documented.

If you think something here is wrong, the fastest route to a fix is rights@pulpworld.org . About Pulp World explains what the site is for.