http://fentonville.co.uk/waverley/
Put up by a J.G.Ballard fan, but those who like old encyclopedias will enjoy this. The colour plates would definitely be of historical interest. I've suggested Commons and Wikisource to Mike Bosnall, but you don't need to wait on that to grab anything good.
- d.
Hi David,
Op 24-12-2011 18:19, David Gerard schreef:
http://fentonville.co.uk/waverley/
Put up by a J.G.Ballard fan, but those who like old encyclopedias will enjoy this. The colour plates would definitely be of historical interest. I've suggested Commons and Wikisource to Mike Bosnall, but you don't need to wait on that to grab anything good.
What PD license (template) would this be? It would be easy to transfer all these pdf's to Commons as one big book.
Maarten
On 24 December 2011 23:42, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Op 24-12-2011 18:19, David Gerard schreef:
http://fentonville.co.uk/waverley/ Put up by a J.G.Ballard fan, but those who like old encyclopedias will enjoy this. The colour plates would definitely be of historical interest. I've suggested Commons and Wikisource to Mike Bosnall, but you don't need to wait on that to grab anything good.
What PD license (template) would this be? It would be easy to transfer all these pdf's to Commons as one big book.
Thaaaaat's ... a good question. Front page says "undated, but internal evidence suggests it was produced in the 1920s." It would have fallen out of copyright in the UK by now. It would not have been published in the US.
geni, what would your knowledge of UK copyright quirks make of this?
If it's OK, it would probably be worth asking Mike Bonsall for the original TIFF scans, rather than what we have here, which is TIFFs wrapped in PDF. Unless there's an easy programmatic method of extracting the TIFF at full resolution, which would be strictly better than the PDF versions in all cases.
- d.
On 24 December 2011 23:52, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 December 2011 23:42, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
Op 24-12-2011 18:19, David Gerard schreef:
http://fentonville.co.uk/waverley/ Put up by a J.G.Ballard fan, but those who like old encyclopedias will enjoy this. The colour plates would definitely be of historical interest. I've suggested Commons and Wikisource to Mike Bosnall, but you don't need to wait on that to grab anything good.
What PD license (template) would this be? It would be easy to transfer all these pdf's to Commons as one big book.
Thaaaaat's ... a good question. Front page says "undated, but internal evidence suggests it was produced in the 1920s." It would have fallen out of copyright in the UK by now. It would not have been published in the US.
geni, what would your knowledge of UK copyright quirks make of this?
Standard life+70 (okey technically some slightly reduced moral rights under Provision 79(6)(b) but meh). Bits of it might be public domain (if you can argue that the individual articles and images constitute separate works) but most of it probably isn't (assuming they followed the standard model of getting a bunch of junior employes or academics to do most of the work). In the US it's PD if pre 1923. Otherwise 95 years after publication.
On 25 December 2011 04:09, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
geni, what would your knowledge of UK copyright quirks make of this?
Standard life+70 (okey technically some slightly reduced moral rights under Provision 79(6)(b) but meh). Bits of it might be public domain (if you can argue that the individual articles and images constitute separate works) but most of it probably isn't (assuming they followed the standard model of getting a bunch of junior employes or academics to do most of the work). In the US it's PD if pre 1923. Otherwise 95 years after publication.
Hm. Does life+70 also apply to works for hire? (Is there case law on this question?) I assume the hypothetical academics sold all rights in the work, not just first publication rights or similar.
- d.
On 25 December 2011 22:57, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 December 2011 04:09, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
geni, what would your knowledge of UK copyright quirks make of this?
Standard life+70 (okey technically some slightly reduced moral rights under Provision 79(6)(b) but meh). Bits of it might be public domain (if you can argue that the individual articles and images constitute separate works) but most of it probably isn't (assuming they followed the standard model of getting a bunch of junior employes or academics to do most of the work). In the US it's PD if pre 1923. Otherwise 95 years after publication.
Hm. Does life+70 also apply to works for hire?
Yes. UK law doesn't really have the same distinction in length when it comes to corporate copyright as the US.
Oliver Keyes would be a good person to ask (okeyes@wikimedia.org) - He's a British lawyer with lots of copyright knowledge.
Ryan Kaldari
On 12/24/11 3:42 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote:
Hi David,
Op 24-12-2011 18:19, David Gerard schreef:
http://fentonville.co.uk/waverley/
Put up by a J.G.Ballard fan, but those who like old encyclopedias will enjoy this. The colour plates would definitely be of historical interest. I've suggested Commons and Wikisource to Mike Bosnall, but you don't need to wait on that to grab anything good.
What PD license (template) would this be? It would be easy to transfer all these pdf's to Commons as one big book.
Maarten
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