I'm happy to spend a bit of time pressing the 'download' button. However, there are lots and lots of PDFs all to be saved, and the PDFs don't seem to be named in a way that indexes them.
I would be much happier spending my time knowing that a) no-one else was duplicating the work I was doing and b) with an idea of any index information I'd need to record for the data to then be useful!
Chris
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@wikia.com To: wikimediauk-l@Wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Royal Society archives online until December
If they have an intention to put stuff online for free-as-in-beer for two months, and then charge people for it later, then I think it is certainly imperative that someone get a private personal archive of absolutely every bit of it, sooner rather than later, and then we can explore the legal status at our leisure.
geni wrote:
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.
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