Anybody can explain how it can be legal to claim copyright on old material,
say 18th or 19th century works?
When browsing the web (mostly library pages and catalogues) those
institutions often claim full copyright and prohibit reproduction,
distribution etc. of the
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
Anybody can explain how it can be legal to claim copyright on old
material, say 18th or 19th century works?
When browsing the web (mostly library pages and catalogues) those
institutions often claim full
Their are quite a few facets of this issue, just some of many:
- do you actually have access to an original copy? Obviously who ever is
providing access to an online version is completely free to define
whatever ToS they want.
- sweat of the brow provisions as Eugene mentions
- dead for
On 04.04.14 21:09, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
this wasn't obvious to me, I can understand that they can charge whatever
they want for making available a copy, but I didn't know they could further
contractually forbid to redistribute / copy / upload to wiki commons etc.,
even if the material
