----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel F Heiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Dowland portrait
> Arne: > > Are you asking someone to violate copyright for you? God forbid! > The Lute Society of America does not at this point publish directly to > the web. As far as I am aware, no other lute or vihuela society does > either. The various lute societies around the world do publish in print > for the benefit of their members and the benefit of the authors who > contribute articles to the publications, but that process consumes > resources, labor and materials, at least some of which cost money. That > cost is the reason that these societies all charge membership fees (note > that the no-fee Internet Lute Society is now defunct). > > The article about which you are inquiring was published in volume 30 of > the Journal of the Lute Society of America, and that back issue is > available from Anne Burns, as are all the other back issues. > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/publications/JLSA-Index.html > > I am endeavoring to put up onto the LSA web site some of the really old > material from the LSA quarterly publications particularly, as I am able > to get permission from the authors to do so. However, that permission is > very often extemely difficult to obtain. When I do get a response from > the author, at best it usually is "I will take a look at it and get back > to you;" then nothing more. > > What is there is here: > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~lsa/publications/index.html#retro > > Regards, > > Daniel Heiman This sounds good. In the present case, however, I would settle for a summary of said article. It would be interesting to know whether there were good arguments in favour of the identification. We all know that we have to be careful with concluding too much from iconography, right? Thanks, Arne. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
