Dear Behdad: You replied to me personally, so allow me to forward your message (below) to the list as your question was apparently directed to all list members.
The interesting thing with www.babylon.com/... is that some of these Persian dictionaries carry a copyright message, while others, specifically those that use the name Aryanpur, do not. According to the introductory message, the latter have been >>Presented by: Network and Information Center (NIC) of the university of Isfahan. web site: www.ui.ac.ir [...]<< What does this mean? Presented by whom? The lawful owners of the dictionary contents and of the data? Presented to whom? To the "Public Domain"? This hypothesis seems to be supported by the fact that www.babylon.com/gloss/glossaries.html speaks of "Free Public Glossaries", but this goes of course with the implied assumption that the people who "presented" these data has the legal capacity to do so. Lastly, does anyone know if an Aryanpur printed or electronic version has ever been [re-]published in one of the signatory states of the Universal Copyright Convention*, carrying an appropriate copyright message? Proving this would be the only chance, IMO, to protect the original authors' rights in the international theater. Best regards, Peter *) see http://www.unesco.org/culture/laws/copyright/html_eng/state1952.shtml -----Original Message----- From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 10:25 PM To: Linguasoft Subject: Re: English<>Persian electronic dictionaries The one that claims to be Aryanpur is almost what we have, based on the number of entries. I don't know about the others, nor can I check. Would one please download and have a look. The big one, with 250000 entries(!!), is it the multi-volume Aryanpur? behdad On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Linguasoft wrote: > In an attempt to broaden our current discussion: > > Does anyone know about the legal status of the dictionaries > offered for free download on the following site: > > http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?layout=sr_new.html&cat=21&sort=&n > c=2&n=10 > > The company offering them is identified at > > http://www.babylon.com/display.php?id=44&tree=7&level=2 > > (the German address is only a branch office, AFAIK). > > Best regards, > > Peter _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
