Re: VMs: introducing myself and 2 questions :)

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 05:49 29/07/2003 -0700, Matt Welnicki wrote:
> 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.

Of course - but I'd be even more comfortable setting a big fat download 
going while I'm working on something else completely. I haven't tried 
downloading anything that big yet... but there's always a first time. :-)

> 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.

IIRC, Wilfrid Voynich made some efforts to bully everyone to whom he had 
given copies to return them, so that he was able to try to sell not just 
the MS but control over the MS' reproduction. The Beinecke also owns a 
large number of those early photographs.

As for other copies: the British Library's (incomplete) set of positive 
monochrome rotographs were donated by Robert Steele in 1931: but I don't 
believe that these have been reproduced at all.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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