I left out something. The question about scanning concerned originally uncopyrighted material, like military instruction manuals.
My guy concluded, if the original was not copyright, a CD version of it could not be copyright, except for any added new material. -John ================ > I just ran into one of our attorneys in the hallway. Copyright refers to > the intellectual property, not to the medium. The fact that the > intellectual property of the author is moved from a book to a CD does not > affect copyright, so long as the content is not otherwise altered. Think > about it; if your friend's contention were true, we could all dodge > copyright restrictions simply by photocopying (scanning) the material we > wished to appropriate. > > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:02 AM, J. Forster <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That is apparently the case for the HC books. >> >> I'm not so sure about the CDs. A friend who is an IP attorney has told >> me >> that if you scan something, you cannot copyright the scan. You can >> copyright any new content you add. >> >> FWIW, >> >> -John >> >> ================ >> >> >> > On 7/13/11 6:55 AM, J. Forster wrote: >> >> there is a Yahoo Group, MIT-Rad-Lab-Books where you might get lucky >> on >> >> the >> >> missing volumes. >> >> >> >> There was a complete, scanned set on two CDs around also. The >> copyright >> >> status is unknown though. >> >> >> > >> > >> > Have to check for sure, but they might be non-copyright. Were they >> > funded by the U.S.Govt, for instance? >> > >> > (from one web page, which I recognize is not authoritative, "After the >> > end of World War II, the United States government continued to pay key >> > people who had worked at the Radiation Laboratory for six months to >> > enable them to write about their work.") >> > >> > on the other hand, one would think that it would be readily findable >> on >> > the web if it were out of copyright. THere are links to sites which >> no >> > longer exist, so methinks it's in copyright and MIT is out assiduously >> > asking people to take down their copies when they find them. (they >> tend >> > to be at researchy kinds of places.. Jefferson Labs, UCSD, etc.) >> > >> > The CDs themselves are almost certainly copyrighted.. >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe, go to >> > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> > and follow the instructions there. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
