Agreed with Ray here, the watermarking and "licencing agreement" for stuff that's public domain is a bit of a turnoff. Otherwise, it would be great to cross-reference what Wikisource has and what this site has, find out what he has that we don't, and take steps to correct that ;-)
Cheers, Craig On 3 December 2011 09:58, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an interesting and useful site, but prohibiting the electronic > reproduction of the content, even as it applies to material that is > indisputably in the public domain is not on the spirit of open software. > > Ray > > On 12/01/11 5:15 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: > > Ron Unz, a long-time Wikimedia supporter, alerted me to this personal > > project that he's been working on for a long time: > > > > http://www.unz.org/ > > > > It's an archive of periodicals, books, and videos, some of which > > hosted there, some externally. > > > > Examples: > > > > http://www.unz.org/Publication/SaturdayRev > > http://www.unz.org/Publication/Century > > > > Timeslice from the outbreak of WWI: > > > > http://www.unz.org/Publication/AllArticles?Period=1914aug > > > > According to Ron, the system contains almost 400,000 authors and their > > writings. A couple of examples of author pages: > > > > http://www.unz.org/Author/MenckenHL > > http://www.unz.org/Author/WhartonEdith > > > > Ron believes that the copyright situation is clear -- that either it's > > PD due to age, due to lack of copyright renewal, or that he has > > permission in some cases via licensing agreements. In any case, > > there's quite a bit of unambiguously public domain stuff there that I > > haven't seen digitized elsewhere, and it should be useful as a > > research library for Wikipedians as well. > > > > Cheers, > > Erik > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l >
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