Are letters to shareholders public domain material?

To be in the public domain, a work has to either have an expired copyright (95 years for corporate authorship) or has to have a law that assigns the work directly to the public domain (as is the case for any work created by the Federal government; all instantly in the public domain). Your corporate letter to shareholders might be publicly distributed, but it is not free from copyright protections. read more

Dear Shareholder, As you are aware, Hewlett Packard remains locked in dispute with a group of its own shareholders and with the former management team of Autonomy over its purchase of Autonomy. I write to you today to raise serious concerns about the way HP has conducted this affair, and to put forward a number of questions that HP management should answer. read more

A letter to the shareholders of A.C. Lawrence Leather Co about the previous fiscal year. It is dated December 12, 1946 and was submitted by Harold N Goodspeed, president of the company. read more