Further to this, a key resource is the Online Books Page, http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/serials.html This is really helpful for the older stuff.
Unz has a tremendous amount of more modern material, and I would have concerns about the legitimacy of his having the material. For example "The Anglo-Soviet Journal" was published in England from 1940 until 1992, shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unz has a broken run of issues between 1940 and 1974. Who would have been in a position to license his use of the material? Looking at the title page for the Spring 1965 issue the ASJ allowed reproduction of its contents, but did its contributors necessarily agree to this or give up their copyrights? It all makes me wonder how much of his material is infringing.
For ourselves, it would make sense to be careful. In the broader scheme of things the situation bears watching. Do the authors of the articles even give a damn? I suspect that few if any with standing will ever complain. Those few can easily be accommodated. It makes one wonder about the benefit to being purists about respecting copyrights.
Ray
On 12/02/11 9:12 PM, Craig Franklin wrote:
Agreed with Ray here, the watermarking and "licencing agreement" for stuff that's public domain is a bit of a turnoff. Otherwise, it would be great to cross-reference what Wikisource has and what this site has, find out what he has that we don't, and take steps to correct that ;-)
Cheers, Craig
On 3 December 2011 09:58, Ray Saintonge wrote:
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