[Commons-l] Royal Society archives online until December

Mon Sep 25 10:00:14 UTC 2006

David Gerard wrote:
> On 25/09/06, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux at free.fr> wrote:
>> Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
> 
>>> Is there anywhere on Commons to upload this yet? If not, something along
>>> the lines of:
>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_Journals
> 
>> You of course realize that mass downloads of journals may be construed
>> as a copy of a significant part of a database, which is protected by a
>> special copyright (much shorter than the regular one) under EU directives?
> 
> 
> And the UK law implementing this is ...
> 
> David Monniaux says the Foundation should:
> [ ] not download and save this stuff on commons without absolute legal clarity
> [ ] say "such a restriction on hundreds of years old material is
> odious" and do it anyway
> [ ] something else
> 

For my money

[x] say "such a restriction on hundreds of years old material is odious"
and do it anyway

but IANAL (and I'm not being paid to do this either). I might add that
downloading the stuff is a non-trivial process...

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