On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 11:33:13PM -0400, Ben Bradley wrote:
It looks like a lively, lightly-moderated list here. As a long-term participant on Usenet as well as many email lists, this is nothing new to me and I feel perfectly welcome. :)
As a denizen of Usenet, you may feel even more at home in a while. :-)
My first question involves the book "On The Sensations of Tone" by Herman Helmholtz. I recently saw mention of it online and decided that since its copyright has long expired I might find it on the GP site. I don't see it, nor did I find the text elsewhere online, but further investigation (reading much of the PG FAQ) led me to this page with list of books in progress:
http://www.dprice48.freeserve.co.uk/GutIP.html
The relevant portion of that webpage is:
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von (31aug1821-8sep1894) The Mystery of Creation - Copyright cleared 23 Nov 1997 On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music - Copyright cleared 17 Sep 2003
How do I find the "real" status of this book, whose copyright was cleared seven months ago but is not yet online? If it's not actively being converted to text by someone else, I'd like to do it (as soon as I get my own physical copy). Apparently, I should email Mr. Price at the address indicated on that webpage to see what he might know, but I'd also like to know if I'm missing something in relation to this.
Nope. Not missing anything. Somebody's got it. They may or may not be doing anything with it. It's not queued up at DP. But seven months ain't nuthin' much.
Second question: Why are there two copies of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" on the GP site?
Same reason there are three Grimms, three Odysseys, three Iliads in English and one in French, seven or eight of Hamlet, two Valley of Fears, two Literary Tastes, and yadda-yadda. FAQ V.32 and R.36. Basically, if it comes from a different paper edition, we post it separately, and give it a new number. And BTW, it's always "PG", not "GP".
And a third: I just came across yet another copyrighted book online. All such books I've seen on the web are apparently put online legally by the author or with the author's permission. Is there a list of these books, perhaps as a part of an index of "all books online"?
Not that I'm aware of. You can quickly get the list of PG-posted copyrighted works (not necessarily titles) from GUTINDEX.ALL, but people put all kinds of stuff online and call it copyrighted but available for private use, and they don't necessarily register it with us or anyone else. jim