I really don't see why a magazine should be uptight about uploading scans of their issues from 20 years ago. Lets be honest, how many people out there are going to pay to read that? No body is excited about the upcoming "Titanic" movie or whats going to happen on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" finale.
Unless they are going to have a subscription based service where you can go online and read all their issues (which I hardly know any magazines that do that), there is no reason to make a big deal out of it. Printed magazine is a dying business, at this point its more about giving back to the community than fighting over copyrights.