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28+14
by Wallace J.McLean 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

> only from the founding of the US to ~1831, when 14 + 14 was repleaced > by 28 + 14, a standard which I don't recall was ever adopted elsewhere. > This "standard" was again replaced in 1909 with 28 + 28, and again in > 1976 with 75 years [renewal not needed] and in 1998 with 95 years. 28+14 was also the pre-Berne term in Canada and Newfoundland, and in the pre-Confederation Province of Canada. At one point during the late pre-Confederation period (1840s? 1850s?), at least Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island also had n+14 terms, although their initial terms were 21 years, not 28. I'd suspect you'd find a similar history throughout the Commonwealth jurisdictions. Anyone have info on early Australian, NZ, or RSA terms?

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Fwd: [gutvol-d] Free Beer ! OOOPS!
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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re: [gutvol-d] pg 2(thousand)
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

michael said: > and some of the Google books are in progress. actually, some of 'em have even been finished, diffed, compared, and discussed, ad nauseum... -bowerbird

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Re: US Copyright Law again.
by Dave Fawthrop 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

On , in you wrote: | On 10/30/05, Dave Doty <davedoty(a)hotmail.com> wrote: | > | > | > | > US law is not a world standard from which other countries choose to | > deviate. | | | Although it seems to be fast becoming that way. With the increase in | globalisation, things like copyright law are becoming more standard and in | the respect unfortunately US law *is* becoming the standard. AFAIK no country is following the US 1923 abberation in US Law. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design"

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pg 2(thousand)
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

project gutenberg two (thousand), a.k.a. 21st century project gutenberg -- with arms in various countries -- has indeed become "the world's library". of course, with the o.c.a. active now, there's a better-funded "competitor", but i do believe that michael hart will welcome e-books from every origin... -bowerbird

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re: [gutvol-d] Fw: Open Library
by Bowerbird＠aol.com 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

http://www.openlibrary.org/ and, in particular, http://www.openlibrary.org/details/openlibrary -bowerbird

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Fw: Open Library
by N Wolcott 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Norm Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: N Wolcott To: Project Gutenberg volunteer discussion Cc: Jules Verne Forum Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 9:37 AM Subject: Open Library Last week a conference was held in San Francisco of the players in the Open Consort Alliance, a group of organizations who have agreed to join Brewster Kahle's Digital Library Project hosted on Archive.com the Internet Archive site. I was fortunately able to talk with one of the attendees. In summary: The million books project was a pilot project in India with 10000 books supplied by Brewster. A robotic scanner was used. The results were less than marvelous. The new scanner in San Francisco is manually (pedal) operated. The books are placed on a 90 degree opening support and two cameras alternately photograph the left and right pages at 3 seconds per page. Glass plates flatten each page.Scanning is in full color at 300 or 500 dpi. The stored images are in Jpeg2000 format, a lossless compression format roughly equivalent to a compressed tiff file in size. >From this file derivative formats are generated. The initial project is all the books in the California State Libraries that are public domain. Sample tif files were 5 meg for a viewable image so this is not for the faint of heart with a 32K modem. Images were all oriented properly and no skewing. Colored pictures were quite respectable at 300 dpi 24 bit color. Currently only about 300 books are online at the open books project, but that will obviously grow. Participating libraries benefit from the free scanning and the provision of scanned files on 200 G hard drives (user supplied). The books are stored on Brewster's "Petabox" which I understand means 10^5 Gigs. Lulu was present at the forum. They are going to be the "print" arm of the project for those who want printed copies of the books. I was pleased to find out that the president of Lulu had brought along in his bag of tricks a copy of my Lulu book "The Blockade Runners" as an example of the kind of output which could be expected. This project offers an ideal opportunity to put some of the early Jules Verne Hetzels on-line with really good quality. In order to do this we would need (1) someone with a pipeline to Brewster Kahle and (2) collectors willing to part with their books for a time and (3) probably an organization to front for the project. Brewster favors books without user limitations. Since the whole book is scanned including inside covers this is the opportunity to tip in a removable bookplate "This book was contributed to the Open Library by the generosity of xxx yyyyy December, 2005. " Well, its an idea anyway. Norm Wolcott nwolcott2(a)post.harvard.edu

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Re: [gutvol-d] Free Beer ! OOOPS!
by Gutenberg9443＠aol.com 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

In a message dated 10/29/2005 11:20:12 PM Mountain Standard Time, hyphen(a)hyphenologist.co.uk writes: No the world is going to Life + 70. The USA is as always out of step. Everybody's out of step but me. Frontier-era means late 18th, all of 19th, and very early 20th century in the United States. It's actually quite a stereotypical reference, and I have been told but do not know whether it is true that the two places which most often did the "free beer" on election day were early Chicago and early San Francisco. Don't anybody start a flame war with me over that, because I won't respond. If you disagree you have every right to disagree. Anne Do you like to breathe? Then save the trees! Begin a personal relationship with an ebook TODAY!

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"Steamboat Willie" is the touchstone...
by John Hagerson 30 Oct '05

30 Oct '05

The Walt Disney Company wants a perpetual copyright on "Steamboat Willie" and everything that comes afterwards. The Sonny Bono Digital Millennium Copyright Act was introduced when the film was within five years of the public domain. Look for the company to repeat its performance.

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Re: gutvol-d Digest, Vol 15, Issue 24
by Wallace J.McLean 30 Oct '05

30 Oct '05

> Although it seems to be fast becoming that way. With the increase in globalisation, > things like copyright law are becoming more standard and in the respect > unfortunately US law *is* becoming the standard. Nope. The US term rules are pretty well unique to the US, for as long as the US delays moving to a life+70 THAT ACTUALLY EVER EXPIRES. The life+70 universe, including the US, is only less than a quarter of the world's population. Most of the countries of the world, with the largest share of the global population, are in the life+50 universe. Today's Topics: 1. Re: Free Beer ! OOOPS! (Ian MacLean) 2. Re: Free Beer ! OOOPS! (Dave Fawthrop) 3. Re: Free Beer ! OOOPS! (Andrew Sly) 4. Re: Free Beer ! OOOPS! (Bruce Albrecht) _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d

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