On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:20:55AM -0500, N Wolcott wrote:
If you have a a valuable collection, if the scans are high quality tiff's or tiff's and jpegs you might enquire about space on ibiblio where they can be accessed as a collection. Many PG tiff's are just high enought quality to "get the job done", you might want yours to be separated from the dross.
I know of a situation. Let's say that it's hypothetical. Someone got access to some extremely old and rare books, and photographed them. The photos were scanned and distributed on CDROM by a company. The owners of the photos say the scans constitute stolen property, and after years of legal action, stopped the company from distributing the scans. The books in question are up to 500 years old and unlikely to ever come back into print. What is PG's position? The books themselves are clearly not in copyright; the few remaing copies are heirlooms tucked away in a few select private libraries. PG would not be distributing the scans themselves. If PG could get access to the scans, would it be ethical to use them? Please let me know the official answer. Jonathan -- It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep. Eukleia: Jonathan Walther Address: 12706 99 Ave, Surrey, BC V3V2P8 (Canada) Contact: 604-684-1319 (daytime) Contact: 604-582-9308 (morning and evening) Puritan: Purity of faith, Purity of doctrine. Sola Scriptura!