At 10:53 07/09/2007, Christoph Steinbeck wrote: >This is a joke, isn't it?
No, see my blog and Peter Suber's. Also read him on German copyright - it looks worrying. P. >And I was still thinking that the Anglo-Saxon countries have an >especially liberal attitude when it comes to accessing public historical >goods. >So, in what kind of publication did this appear? Why did it not "run out >of copyright" like so many other publications from that age? > >Cheers, > >Chris > >Rzepa, Henry wrote: > >> I will in fact go and try to collect it tomorrow. I will refuse to > >> sign the copyright, asking only that I be allowed to read > >> the paper document for 5 minutes and take notes. I fully expect > >> the librarians to refuse this request, in which case an interesting > >> stand-off will occur. I will let you know what happens! > > > > > > Update on above. Well, I arrived, and made my request. > > It was refused, on the grounds that it would "set a precedent". > > > > Apparently, because the photocopy was not the original > > (whatever that means), they would have to "clarify" > > whether I could be allowed to read it. Had it indeed been > > the original, there would have been no problem in letting > > me look at it, or indeed even letting me photocopy the > > article for my own use (but still, not my student's use). > > > > So whatever it was that Julius Steglitz had to say about > > carbonium ions in 1899 will go undiscovered by me for > > at least for a few more days (or likely, weeks). > > > > The librarians did seem agreed that if I were to acquire a photocopy, > > scanning it, followed by OCR and then eg OSCAR text mining would > > constitute a gross infringement (punishable by god knows what). > > > > I hasten to add this is all in a good cause. The Wikipedia entry on > > carbonium ions mentions Steglitz by name, but gives no detail > > whatsoever. My original intent was simply to expand upon that! > > >-- >PD Dr. Christoph Steinbeck >Lecturer in Chemoinformatics >Univ. Tuebingen, WSI-RA, Sand 1, D-72076 Tuebingen, Germany >Phone: (+49/0) 7071-29-78978 Fax: (+49/0) 7071-29-5091 > >What is man but that lofty spirit - that sense of enterprise. >... Kirk, "I, Mudd," stardate 4513.3.. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. >Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. >Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. >Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ >_______________________________________________ >Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss Peter Murray-Rust Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
