On 9/23/06, Scott Keir scottkeir@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday, September 23, 2006, at 01:45 am, David Gerard wrote:
http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
Everything back to 1665. Really quite a lot of which is public domain. Get downloading.
Is it really public domain? Or is there copyright in the scans? I ask as the website says:
"The archive will be freely available online until December 2006 and, following this period, will be available as part of Royal Society journal subscription packages or alternatively on a-pay per-view basis."
So presumably, they haven't put online for two months free access the results of goodness-knows-how-much hours of scanning just for people to spider mirror it...?
Scott
Under UK law that could probably be described as a legal grey area. Scans of public domain work may or may not be subject to copyright within the UK. Case law says probably. The limited amount of legal opinion I know about says probably not. It is hard to tell.