On 6/19/05, Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:43:08PM -0400, Robert Cicconetti wrote:
Okay. I figured it'd be "Less Work For Greg" if I asked the list in general first. :)
(Yes, it was a good discussion!)
Doing my bit to improve the signal to noise ratio. :)
I'll fill out the clearances tonight. To be honest, the differences are fairly small; they've cleared out some of the screening artifacts and the colors are a little more vivid; how much of that is because they are less than 20 years old I cannot say. :)
As people have said: doing such updates does not qualify for a new copyright, in our view.
Great!
We're fairly close to having a complete set; once I finish up the extant books (One will have to be DP-EU only; it's from 1930) I plan to go back and produce some cleaner scans for my first few books and possibly those from the other PMs (assuming I get permission; I don't want to step on toes.)
I know there were some issues with some Potter illustrations coming later than 1923, but as long as we can clear the images they're fine to include.
The problem is that the entire book was not published until 1930; apparently most of the images were created in 1906, but the work was not completed and published for a long time. It was renewed (R206616), so it is copyrighted here for a while, and in Life+70 until after 2013. However, it is clearable under Life+50 copyright law. (The Tale of Little Pig Robinson.) Aside from that, only The Story of the Fierce Bad Rabbit is unscanned, and I shall correct that now that I can use the newer edition. The other books are in various states of completion; most are waiting on missing pages. I have spent a fair amount of time and effort to get the images looking right; these are more visual works than written ones. R C