Someone left a note on Wikisource about these going
offline in December. I know at least one editor has
begun downloading these. If anyone would like to
help, I am sure we could use it. Of course don't get
yourself in trouble if you fall under UK legal
jurisitiction.
On 26/09/06, James Hardy <wikimediauk(a)weeb.biz>
wrote:
Uploading the original PDFs to a publicly
accessable website would most
likely be a copyright violation, so we
wouldn't
want to do that anyway.
In the UK, not in the US.
Another question is what to do about about
diagrams (assuming that there are
some), I would imagine that if the the RS claims
copyright of the scans we
can't just extract them and use them. Simple
ones
I imagine we can (and
probably should) convert to SVG, but for more
detailed ones, that could be
tricky.
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.
(Though put like that, it looks very like the
National Portrait
Gallery issue. Have they ceased the vague attempts
at legal
intimidation after Jimbo indicated Wikimedia's
attitude would in fact
be "sue and be damned"?)
cc: to foundation-l on this issue.
- d.
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