On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/12/a-million-f… 17th, the The language used here confuses me. Given the age of the source material and the lack of originality in a simple page-scan, wouldn't the resulting images already be PD? Perhaps "release them back into the Public Domain," would be better described as "release them to the public" ? --R _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote: I guess I was just concerned that it was sending the wrong message re: the images, suggesting that the British Library had to put the images into the Public Domain because they (or some other entity) could still hold copyright to them. If it is unclear to the public that slavish reproductions of out-of-copyright 2D works are not themselves eligible for copyright, then perhaps we should work to improve that understanding. It's difficult for a member of the public to exercise his rights unless he knows to what he is entitled! --R _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

On 12/15/2013 05:08 PM, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada wrote: I found an illustration from a Swedish book, found it in the catalog of the British Library, and from there I could both download a PDF and view the whole book in an online 'item viewer'. However, the downloaded PDF has a much lower resolution (I estimate it at 150 dpi) than the real scans (which I estimate at 300 dpi). The illustrations on Flickr are in full resolution. Has anybody found out how to download the whole book in full resolution? The 'item viewer' appears to be a Javascript zoom and pan interface based on layers of 'tiles' (similar to OpenStreetMap), scaled and cut from the scanned images. I had the same problem with books scanned by the Norwegian national library, but there I was able to figure out how to download images in full resolution by requesting large tiles at full zoom. The URLs used by the British Library are opaque to me. Here is the illustration found on Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11067189413/ The description there says 'page 331 of Elfsyssel', Identifier: 000507311, an easily identifiable book. How can I search Flickr for other 'Elfsyssel' pictures? This search yields nothing, http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=elfsyssel The library catalog record is found here, http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?mode=Basic&v… After I downloaded the PDF, I made the book available for reading and proofreading here, http://runeberg.org/elfsyssel/ The illustration (on "page 331") is here, http://runeberg.org/elfsyssel/0331.html but even if you select "full resolution" there, you only get the image from the PDF, and not the good picture from Flickr. -- Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/ _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l

where some fine print is no longer legible. What I want is one that has only been reduced down to 300 dpi or so. How can I get that?