On 26/09/06, Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
2006/9/26, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
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.