CELTLING Digest - 31 May 2011 to 1 Jun 2011 (#2011-11)

[Andrew Hawke]

Although Antony is correct, as far as I am aware, in what he says, 
the TCP (Text Creation Partnership) is a huge labour-intensive 
undertaking converting texts by keyboarding to a very high standard 
and adding extensive XML markup. The first phase cost around $9 
million, financed largely by the academic libraries participating in 
the project. These electronic texts are therefore new works and 
certainly covered by Copyright.

EEBO (http://eebo.chadwyck.com) itself is a commercial undertaking by 
ProQuest/Chadwyck-Healey based on microfilm copies of the books 
published up to 1700 in the English-speaking world (but including 
books in many other languages, such as Welsh and Irish) and is a 
subscription-only service (although again most major academic 
libraries are subscribers).

Andrew

>Date:    Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:36:41 +0200
>From:    Antony Green <toniogreen at WEB.DE>
>Subject: Re: Announcement International Celtic Studies Postgraduate 
>Seminar, 2012
>
>Well, that's very generous of them, considering anything published in
>the early modern period is already in the public domain, and any
>library's claim to own the copyright on the manuscripts it owns are
>utterly fraudulent.
>
>Antony
>
>On 01.06.2011 09:36, Andrew Hawke wrote:
> > I should add that you need a Welsh post code to sign up as an online
> > user of the National Library of Wales in order to access EEBO and some
> > other resources for licensing reasons. However many others will have
> > access to EEBO via their academic institution or local public library
> > service. Most NLW services are, of course, available to all.
> >
> > I am told that after ten years, all the EEBO/TCP texts will be placed
> > in the public domain.
> >
> > Andrew

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