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From: "Lee Privett" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 5:40 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Jan Jones
Guys, I feel it would be remiss not to mention that owning the book (which
I do) is one thing, however obtaining an electronic version from somebody
else may indeed break copyright especially if the copyright owner has not
yet agreed to this, however I do not know enough about copyright to
positively state one way or the other.
This is a very good point. One of the mistakes lay people make is to
oversimplify law using "common sense" arguments. When you have worked in a
legal setting you tend to be more cautious.
When I last was published commercially, the illustration material was all
out of copyright, but the publisher asked me to check with the library from
which I had obtained the material if there was a fee for using or conditions
on using items from their collection. In other words there was a copyright
on the original material and a "copyright" on the library collection.
Don't forget than in Jan Jones' case there are also two parties - Jan Jones
and the original publisher. This may mean there could be a different legal
position between a limited reprinting by Quanta and a complete public
release on the internet. This may account for the lack of reply to Dave
Park,
Best wishes,
Geoff
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