Ohio Garage, thanks for the legal links, your help with that means alot, i will check them later on today....Mop Top, the *potential* reissue I am working on consists of material that was released in small editions by the artist himself on custom cassettes without any publisher or label involved or even a pressing plant. Further more, I might also be issuing vintage stuff that has never ever been released before, stuff that probably has only been heard by it's creator and me and and an archivist and almost no one else, not even the artist's family.....furthermore, I will have to do a bit more research into registration documents, but numerous well informed sources close to the artist and some of my own recent research has proven that literally nothing this artist has done was ever registered with any copyright office....i am not looking for an easy out or a 'pass', i realize that putting out something without the next of kin's permission will be sketchy no matter how above board i do everything else(i.e., i am not keepiong any money if the project comes out, it will benefit for several charities)...I guess i'm just trying to weigh my options and see exactly what risks are out there before i jump into the water with this thing.