It was not until we started work on material from the 1960's that
we grew concerned that we might have a problem. In the 1960's the
YDN began to run comic strips, some of which were produced by Yale
students. Most notably, a strip called Bull Tales first appeared in
September 1968 written by an undergraduate named Garry Trudeau.
After Mr. Trudeau graduated he changed the name of the strip to
Doonesbury which was then syndicated nationally, including in the
YDN. Peanuts also regularly ran in the YDN throughout the 1960's,
1970's and later years. The inclusion of these popular and copyright
protected comic strips raised red flags for us: were we allowed to
include this material, and did we need to seek permission to do so?
We worried that we would need to excise this material from the
digitized copies of the papers.