gallica and Canadiana books are NOT precleared. They must go through the same copyright clearance process as any other book. Since they provide scans, those scans are can be submitted for copyright clearance. If a date is in doubt and the scans come from them, we will usually accept the data that they provide. I know that there are people who have been putting ebooks from ebookgratuit into PG as they are able to get the TP&V scans for copyright clearance. I don't remember who has been coordinating that effort, but I'm sure someone will reply to answer that part of the question. JulietS N Wolcott wrote:
Can the masters at DP and PG investigate whether books at ebooksgratuit may be harvested?? I know that arrangements have been made with gallica and Canadiana so that all of their product is automatically "pre cleared". Ebooksgratuit has etexts of almost all of Jules Verne books in French from original PD cources, but they do not show the title page in their texts as they have been ocr'ed. Many of the books are obscure and they must have verified them before posting. They are already in DOC format and easy to transfer.
any suggestions? Norm Wolcott nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu <mailto:nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu>