Vol. I · Notice Source & use Not legal advice
He Didn’t JumpThe Marion Zioncheck Archive
United States Historical-research notice 17 U.S.C. § 107 By

Copyrights & historical research notice

The record is published to be read, not erased

Independent historical research on events of 7 August 1936. Original wording and code on this host are Aziel’s. Third-party plates stay with their holders.

hedidntjump.com is An Aziel Eliab Project: a nonprofit, non-commercial historical newspaper and five-volume archive on the death of U.S. Representative Marion Zioncheck in Seattle on 7 August 1936 — about ninety years. It is a public archive table for examining the record. It is not a commercial product, not a shrine, and not an entertainment scrape-farm. It is not a claim of absolute immunity from copyright.

Facts, dates, and events are not copyrightable under U.S. law. The offices, votes, vital-record entries, and printed headlines the volumes preserve can be stated. Expression — the wording of a clipping, the composition of a photograph, the layout of a certificate — belongs to whoever still holds it, unless a limitation, a license, or the public domain says otherwise.

The primary subjects and the named contemporary actors in that 1936 record are deceased. No living person’s private life is the target of this archive. As this historical record is presented here, right-of-publicity and privacy claims aimed at those long-dead figures are treated as inapplicable. That is the archive’s framing. It is not a statute invented for this page.

This page is a notice of how the edition is framed. It is not legal advice and not a warranty to any reader, platform, or rights holder.

United States · 17 U.S.C. § 107

Fair use, as the statute lists the factors

The edition relies on the fair-use limitation for criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, and scholarship. No factor is treated as a complete defense by itself.

Purpose and character

Research, comment, and a public record

Plates are published to identify what the volumes and the supplied files actually show, to caption them to a reader page when the facsimile matches, and to ask the boxed inquiries. That is a transformative, nonprofit purpose: the clipping is not posted as a substitute for the morning paper that first sold it.

Nature of the work

Factual news and official paper

Most plates are news photographs, headlines, vital records, or agency correspondence. Factual and published works weigh differently from unpublished fiction. The archive does not claim that every government stamp erases copyright in a reporter’s prose or a studio portrait.

Amount and substantiality

The beat, not the whole book

Crops are cut to the document or the clipping. Phone chrome, catalog toolbars, and empty margins are removed. A plate is a page or a photograph the inquiry needs — not a dump of an entire newspaper issue or an unredacted private file.

Market effect

No substitute for the holders’ market

This host does not sell the plates, license them as stock, or replace a library’s paid scan desk. Wikimedia and Library of Congress stills remain under the terms those institutions publish. A takedown or correction request is read as a scholarly errata problem first: prefer a better caption, a tighter crop, or a replacement file over silence.

Vital records, agency paper, and libraries

What this notice does not claim

Publicness of a fact is not the same as a blank copyright. State vital records, federal letters, and library scans each have their own rules.

Certificates and FOIA paper

Government paper, still captioned

Death certificates and the supplied FBI FOIPA letter are published as historical evidence. U.S. government works prepared by an officer or employee as part of that person’s official duties are not eligible for copyright under 17 U.S.C. § 105. State death certificates on this edition are public vital records as preserved for historical research — not a claim that every state form is copyright-free. That federal rule is not stretched here into a claim that every stamped form or every library photograph is in the public domain. Captions say when a plate is a supplied scan rather than a volume-page facsimile.

Wikimedia · Library of Congress

Their terms still govern their files

Materials sourced from Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress, and other credited archives remain subject to their stated licenses, rights statements, or catalog terms. This site credits those sources and uses the files in a transformative historical-research context. It does not re-license them. LOC edge numbers on a still are left on the crop when they are part of the archival object.

Correction over erasure

How to ask for a change

This is good-faith scholarly use. A rights holder with a verifiable claim should write Aziel Eliab through . The preference on this edition is correction over erasure: name the plate, name the defect, keep the historical question on the page. A better caption, a tighter crop, or a replacement file comes before silence.

Repository license

Apache-2.0 for Aziel’s original stack

The public repository at github.com/AzielEliab/hedidntjump.com carries Apache-2.0 for Aziel’s original HTML, CSS, scripts, and editorial wording. That license does not grant a new copyright in other people’s photographs, clippings, or certificates bundled as research plates. Collection dated July 2026.