[gothic-l] Re: A Million Questions: 6. (Syntax): copyright

[Tore Gannholm]

On Oct 8, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Tom De Herdt wrote:

> > > If you don't use the text for commercial purposes you have no
> profit.
>  > > Compensation is normally calculated on % of income.
>  > This is not a matter of your profit, but the loss of the owner of
> the
>  rights.
>
>  Indeed: why would people buy Hugo Stopp's reprint when they can
> download and
>  print a PDF document that offers exactly the same? The problem is
> that both
>  Streitberg's original edition and the 1981 reprint are published by
> the same
>  publisher (Carl Winter), so I wouldn't be surprised to find out that
> they
>  somehow extended the copyright (or that Streitberg, as Troels
> suggests, may
>  have transferred his rights). The only way to be sure is to ask for
>  permission, I guess.
>
>  > Of course the rules have to be followed, but you can publish the
> full
>  > text if it is public domain. In the principle you are not allowed to
>  > publish "mechanical and electronical" copies of a book under
>  > copyright even if the text itself is public domain, but I do not
> know
>  > how this can be controlled as you could just copy the original
> edition.
>
>  Good point. So it would be safe to post a copy of the actual text,
> e.g. a
>  TEI edition; that would make it searchable too. It's a lot of work
> though,
>  and e-text lacks the verifiability offered by a facsimile
> reproduction.
>
>  Tom

Tom,

Are you talking about Gotisches Elementarbuch / von W. Streitberg?
If so, it is printed in 1897 and the guy must be dead since long.
Accordingly there are no copy rights any longer.

Tore




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