The library assumes that everything pre-1900 is out of copyright, and yes: There are two projects - e-books on demand (EOD) and digitizing on demand (DOD). EOD is an Europeana project where the user pays for time spent (iirc), while DOD is Royal Library only, and free. The time frames are as you mentioned, Jonathan.
Oh, David: please do not move too fast - the people involved in the DOD project need to catch their collective breaths (I also need some of the to write Wikipedia articles) :-)
-Ole
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Jonathan Gray jonathan.gray@okfn.orgwrote:
Great news!
While it looks like pre-1600 and 1601-1700 will be only available via EEBO for people outside DK (which requires a fairly hefty institutional subscription fee?), the 1701-1900 texts appear to be freely available? Does anyone know about the legal status / license / terms of use of these texts?
J.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Ole Palnatoke Andersen ole@palnatoke.orgwrote:
Hi!
The Royal Library in Copenhagen has started making free e-books on demand from Danish 1701-1900 books in their collections.
By doing this, they get more usage but less wear and tear and more space in the reading room :-)
More on http://www.kb.dk/en/nb/samling/dod/index.html
Regards, Ole
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