On 26/09/06, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2006/9/26, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>:
> So no-one in the UK should do this, but someone
in the US may say "you
> claim you own a scan of a diagram from 1720 and no-one else can touch
> it? O rly. Sue and be damned." This is something we would need to be
> *quite* clear that we were or were not going to say ahead of time, of
> course.
According to my experience as a scientist writing
sometimes a review
articles you have to '''always''' ask for permission to use
graphs
which are copyrighted or included in a copyrighted publications or
databases.
US copyright law. Scanning does not create a new copyright, and the
notion is in any case odious.
- d.