This is an interesting and useful site, but prohibiting the electronic reproduction of the content, even as it applies to material that is indisputably in the public domain is not on the spirit of open software.
Ray
On 12/01/11 5:15 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:
Ron Unz, a long-time Wikimedia supporter, alerted me to this personal project that he's been working on for a long time:
It's an archive of periodicals, books, and videos, some of which hosted there, some externally.
Examples:
http://www.unz.org/Publication/SaturdayRev http://www.unz.org/Publication/Century
Timeslice from the outbreak of WWI:
http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllArticles?Period=1914aug
According to Ron, the system contains almost 400,000 authors and their writings. A couple of examples of author pages:
http://www.unz.org/Author/MenckenHL http://www.unz.org/Author/WhartonEdith
Ron believes that the copyright situation is clear -- that either it's PD due to age, due to lack of copyright renewal, or that he has permission in some cases via licensing agreements. In any case, there's quite a bit of unambiguously public domain stuff there that I haven't seen digitized elsewhere, and it should be useful as a research library for Wikipedians as well.
Cheers, Erik