[Foundation-l] [Wikimediauk-l] Royal Society archives online until December

[David Gerard]

On 26/09/06, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/9/26, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> > So no-one in the UK should do this, but someone in the US may say "you
> > claim you own a scan of a diagram from 1720 and no-one else can touch
> > it? O rly. Sue and be damned." This is something we would need to be
> > *quite* clear that we were or were not going to say ahead of time, of
> > course.

> According to my experience as a scientist writing sometimes a review
> articles you have to '''always''' ask for permission to use graphs
> which are copyrighted or included in a copyrighted publications or
> databases.


US copyright law. Scanning does not create a new copyright, and the
notion is in any case odious.


- d.