On 23/09/06, geni <geniice@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/23/06, Scott Keir <scottkeir@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday, September 23, 2006, at 01:45 am, David Gerard wrote:
> > http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
> >
> > Everything back to 1665. Really quite a lot of which is public domain.
> > Get downloading.
>
> Is it really public domain? Or is there copyright in the scans? I ask
> as the website says:
>
> "The archive will be freely available online until December 2006 and,
> following this period, will be available as part of Royal Society
> journal subscription packages or alternatively on a-pay per-view basis."
>
> So presumably, they haven't put online for two months free access the
> results of goodness-knows-how-much hours of scanning just for people to
> spider mirror it...?
>
> Scott

Under UK law that could probably be described as a legal grey area.
Scans of public domain work may or may not be subject to copyright
within the UK. Case law says probably. The limited amount of legal
opinion I know about says probably not. It is hard to tell.

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geni
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