Martyn Hodgson wrote:
Following recent communications which mentioned FoMRHI, I contacted Eph Segerman and include the relevant part of his reply below.
In short, anything in FoMRHI not specifcally restricted as detailed below seems to be able to be freely reproduced and circulated.
MH
Ephraim Segerman wrote:
Subject: Re: Fwd: FoMRHI
From: Ephraim Segerman
To: Martyn Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:36:22 +0000
All one needs to copyright something that is written is to print the
symbol of a C inside a circle. A few contributors to FoMRHI have
retained their copyright by doing this, but the vast majority have not.
FoMRHI has never claimed copyright on anything it published. So, except
for the few copyrighted Comms, all FoMRHI stuff can be duplicated and
circulated.
There is now a movement to revive FoMRHI, which involves action by the
Fellows.
Yours,
Eph
I'm note sure Eph is right here.
See:
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/protect/protect-should/protect-should-copy.htm
As I understand it, copyright (in UK) is yours just if you've written
(or created) something original. Putting a C inside a circle just makes
things a bit clearer - but still, if you've written something original,
you have copyright (in UK anyway).
FoMRHI was a bizarre thing - very eccentric. It sort of anticipated the
free flow of the Internet. The only criteria for inclusion were
considerations of ease of photocopying/printing. So there could well be
a certain amount of crank fodder. I remember some very strange
contributions - for example at one time, somebody kept going on and on
about Russian number symbolism or something.
On the other hand, if read in sequence there were corrective replies to
overly speculative ideas. Eph once wrote an ingenious piece on medieval
lute construction without glue - just little wedges for joints. this
was on the assumption that glues didn't exist in those times. In the
next edition, someone pointed out that glues did exist then and Eph
withdrew his conjecture.
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