It occurred to me that if there are not too many xxx portions of the diary, then under the "fair use" doctrine one could write a "scholarly article" on the topic of "editorial squeamishness" and include the referenced passages as footnotes and publish it in a scholarly place like the PG arachive?? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Walther" <krooger@debian.org> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Pepys' birthday
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 03:44:51PM -0500, Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote:
So who is going to complain? There is a new edition as of about 24 years ago, which includes all Pepys's XXX comments that are omitted from the earlier edition.
I seem to recall that Pepys diaries were written in a special shorthand. The current editions may claim copyright on their "transcriptions" of the shorthand.
Anyone game for scanning in the original shorthand, and transcribing it?
Jonathan
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