[Foundation-l] [Wikimediauk-l] [Fwd: Royal Society Digital Journal Archive]

[geni]

On 9/26/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26/09/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To what extent is this true under US law?
> >
> > The claim to ownership of a scan from 1665 is odious. Perhaps it's just me.
>
> Do remember, of course, that only a trivial proportion of these works
> are from 1665! Nothing published in the last seventy years is likely
> to be safely out of copyright (as new scientific material is rarely
> posthumous, and scientific journals don't tend to go in for reprints
> of old stuff), and you have to go back to about 1860-70 before you're
> safe assuming PD without checking the author's details.

We could go back to 1800 and there would still be a fair bit of stuff
which is what we are interested in.

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geni