Newbie questions about clearances, author attribution and header texts
I've just submitted my first copyright clearance request and have mostly completed proofing my first submission (in advance of clearance, despite the warnings), and I have a few questions. The book I've submitted the request for, "Antigua and the Antiguans", dating from 1844, is, at first appearance, anonymous. There is no author listed on the title page, and the preface is signed "The Author". The clearance request form says that an author should be supplied, so I typed in "Mrs Lanaghan", as that is how the book is attributed in a later work on Antigua, V.L. Oliver's 1894 work. A bad luck would have it, two days after submission, I find that the question of authorship for this work has been resolved, and that the author is Amelia Flannigan. 1. How do I go about changing the authorship information in the clearance request, or is that something that can be fixed later? I can provide evidence from newer works of the authorship, and it seems a shame for this work to be either perpetually marked as "Anonymous" or with a name that was once thought to be correct. The second question concerns a header text that is already on the scans and OCRed text I've started from. This book has been scanned by Google Books, and their header asks that they be credited for doing the scanning. Should I just submit their entire header as the start of the document, or do we have some other way of crediting them? If I've missed answers to either of these questions in the existing documentation on the wiki, I apologise, and pointers will be gratefully received. -- Paul Williams
You have two options concerning the author. The first is to resubmit the clearance with the corrected author and a note saying that this supercedes your previous request. Since I do clearances in the reverse order of how they come in (that is, most recent first) I'll see the second submission first and can cancel the previous request. The other alternative is not to worry about the clearance, but just make sure that you include the proper author's name when you upload the book to the white-washers. A brief note about why there's a difference name than on the clearance would be helpful there. When you upload the finished version, there will be a place for you to enter a credit line. You can put your name there, if you want public credit, and also add something about the scans being from Google. You can check other PG books to see how it is usually worded. Don't be surprised if the white-washers send the book back to you with requests for changes. It's very rare for someone to get everything right on their first try, particularly for solo producers. Hope this helps. JulietS On 11/10/2010 6:53 AM, Paul Flo Williams wrote:
I've just submitted my first copyright clearance request and have mostly completed proofing my first submission (in advance of clearance, despite the warnings), and I have a few questions.
The book I've submitted the request for, "Antigua and the Antiguans", dating from 1844, is, at first appearance, anonymous. There is no author listed on the title page, and the preface is signed "The Author".
The clearance request form says that an author should be supplied, so I typed in "Mrs Lanaghan", as that is how the book is attributed in a later work on Antigua, V.L. Oliver's 1894 work.
A bad luck would have it, two days after submission, I find that the question of authorship for this work has been resolved, and that the author is Amelia Flannigan.
1. How do I go about changing the authorship information in the clearance request, or is that something that can be fixed later? I can provide evidence from newer works of the authorship, and it seems a shame for this work to be either perpetually marked as "Anonymous" or with a name that was once thought to be correct.
The second question concerns a header text that is already on the scans and OCRed text I've started from. This book has been scanned by Google Books, and their header asks that they be credited for doing the scanning. Should I just submit their entire header as the start of the document, or do we have some other way of crediting them?
If I've missed answers to either of these questions in the existing documentation on the wiki, I apologise, and pointers will be gratefully received.
Juliet Sutherland wrote:
You have two options concerning the author. The first is to resubmit the clearance with the corrected author and a note saying that this supercedes your previous request. The other alternative is not to worry about the clearance, but just make sure that you include the proper author's name when you upload the book to the white-washers.
Thank you. As tempting as it is to jump to the front of the queue, I'll go with the latter option, as it'll save re-uploading the TP&V images.
When you upload the finished version, there will be a place for you to enter a credit line. You can put your name there, if you want public credit, and also add something about the scans being from Google. You can check other PG books to see how it is usually worded.
Excellent, thank you. -- Paul Williams
-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of Paul Flo Williams Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 7:41 AM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: Newbie questions about clearances, author attribution and header texts
Juliet Sutherland wrote:
You have two options concerning the author. The first is to resubmit the clearance with the corrected author and a note saying that this supercedes your previous request. The other alternative is not to worry about the clearance, but just make sure that you include the proper author's name when you upload the book to the white-washers.
Thank you. As tempting as it is to jump to the front of the queue, I'll go with the latter option, as it'll save re-uploading the TP&V images.
When you upload the finished version, there will be a place for you to enter a credit line. You can put your name there, if you want
Paul, generally speaking, you shouldn't include in your submitted texts material that wasn't part of the book as it was originally published, e.g. the Google header. (Several months ago, I encountered a submission that incorporated the book's owning library's card catalog information--I removed it.) As Juliet says, you can mention the source in your credit line, something like this: "Paul Williams, from scans obtained from Google Books". PG's posting software will prefix this with "Produced by". Occasionally, submitters will include the full URL to the Google (or Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/details/americana) source in a Transcriber's Note, which are described in PG's Volunteers' FAQ, article 7.15 V.97. BTW - I took a look at the PDF version of the source. I noted that immediately following the Contents there were several Errata items. It's quite acceptable to retain these items as printed, and to make the described corrections to the text to which they refer. The fact that such corrections have been made can be mentioned in a Transcriber's Note. Al (one of PG's Whitewashers) public
credit, and also add something about the scans being from Google. You can check other PG books to see how it is usually worded.
Excellent, thank you.
-- Paul Williams
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