On 9/26/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 26/09/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
To what extent is this true under US law?
The claim to ownership of a scan from 1665 is odious. Perhaps it's just me.
Nope, I can smell it too. Although there is a bloke on the other side of the lab who pongs a bit, so perhaps it's that. Still, sounds dubious; if the scan itself is from 1665, then they don't have a leg to stand on.
The scan is from some time post 2000 the material scanned is probably from some time before that. They will probably cite the Graves' Case (1869) LR 4 QB 715 and the issue that is is really rather a grey area of uk law but I'm not a lawyer.