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This comes up a lot recently.
I would very, very much doubt that Yale would be overly concerned about the
publishing of the Yale VMs scans on the web. The source of the data
(scans) should be noted and properly attributed. These images should NOT
be published in book or paper form, nor in a fee-based site, however. Any
such forms would require permission from Yale and the photographer.
Essentially the difference is profit vs research. Institutions of
Higher Education are amazingly open with information as long as it does not hurt
the image of the institution, constitute theft, or mis-represent the intention
of the source.
****************************** Larry Roux Syracuse University lroux@xxxxxxx ******************************* >>> welnicki@xxxxxxxxxxx 07/29/03 08:49AM >>> Obviously if it could be posted on a server that would be best. But if not, upon receipt of a copy I could also make a few copies and send them off to other who could do the same etc., etc. On the issue of copyrights, I think we've touched on this before. The images/photos from Yale may be copyrighted but the actual VMS's copyright has since been expired. And are some of the photos from before the donation to Yale? Yale may claim a right to all images in light of the fact that they can sell them, but since it is for scholarly research, they would be hard pressed to assert this claim. And sometimes compilation, reorganization and the addition/interpretation of the work can avoid the copyrights. If we are really concerned, we could just make a Napster-like software for Voynich images. ;) _________________________________________________ FindLaw - Free Case Law, Jobs, Library, Community http:///www.FindLaw.com Get your FREE @JUSTICE.COM email! http://mail.Justice.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with a body saying: unsubscribe vms-list |