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

[Birgitte SB]

Someone left a note on Wikisource about these going
offline in December.  I know at least one editor has
begun downloading these.  If anyone would like to
help, I am sure we could use it.  Of course don't get
yourself in trouble if you fall under UK legal
jurisitiction.  

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Royal_Society_Journals_free_only_until_December

Birgitte SB

--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/09/06, James Hardy <wikimediauk at weeb.biz>
> wrote:
> 
> > Uploading the original PDFs to a publicly
> accessable website would most
> > likely be a copyright violation, so we wouldn't
> want to do that anyway.
> 
> 
> In the UK, not in the US.
> 
> 
> > Another question is what to do about about
> diagrams (assuming that there are
> > some), I would imagine that if the the RS claims
> copyright of the scans we
> > can't just extract them and use them. Simple ones
> I imagine we can (and
> > probably should) convert to SVG, but for more
> detailed ones, that could be
> > tricky.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> (Though put like that, it looks very like the
> National Portrait
> Gallery issue. Have they ceased the vague attempts
> at legal
> intimidation after Jimbo indicated Wikimedia's
> attitude would in fact
> be "sue and be damned"?)
> 
> cc: to foundation-l on this issue.
> 
> 
> - d.
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