LL-L "Technica" 2009.03.08 (02) [E]

Sun Mar 8 16:01:19 UTC 2009

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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Technica"

Beste Ron,

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* I wonder if this is because it's too easy to be sued in this country. If
you explain the law and publish it, and someone then commits a crime and
says it's because he or she thought it wasn't a crime because of the wording
of your explanation ... Oops! (It can be like that with medical advice as
well.) So I guess the only really safe way is to publish the entirety of the
copyright laws without your own comments, interpretation and explanation.
This is just my hunch.*

Does this mean that a lawyer is a lawyer 24/7 in the US? Is he never allowed
to communicate on law while on a holiday for example?

There are now more than 200 medical applications available for an iPhone
(among which an ECG guide). Do you really mean that Apple could be held
liable for providing a platform for such content? Or would it rather be the
developers that could get sued if an individual misinterprets some result?

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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From: Marcus Buck <list at marcusbuck.org>
Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2009.03.07 (01) [E]

 From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com <mailto:sassisch at yahoo.com>>
Subject: Technica

My name isn't Roger, but for myself I say, "Thanks lots and lots, guys."

So, just for people like /moi/ who are a little slower on the uptake ...

Example scenario:
An author has been dead for over 70 years. Someone finds his or her poems
scattered on bits of paper all over a musty attic. The finder collects these
found poems and publishes them in an anthology. This is clearly the only
published source of that poet's works. Can someone else then use the poems
in his or her own publication without asking for permission?

The 70 year term is only true for published works. If the work is
unpublished yet and you are the first to publish it, you can gain a right on
it - depending on your local laws. In the EU you gain rights on the work for
25 years (this is called "Editio princeps"). But I believe the US don't know
this rule and the work is still free.

Marcus Buck

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From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <roger.thijs at euro-support.be>
Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2009.03.07 (01) [E]

Thanks to all for the comments.

> From: Heiko Evermann <heiko.evermann at gmx.de>
> Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2009.03.06 (04) [E]

>> I see in France for old books they often leave things as one jpg file for
>> each page,
>> forcing to download page by page.

> Who does that? Gutenberg? Not to my knowledge.

See e.g. (individual pages in pdf not jpg)

http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55623h.pagination

a page of

http://gallica.bnf.fr/

Regards,

Roger

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From: Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc. <roger.thijs at euro-support.be>

Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2009.03.07 (01) [E] - addendum

> See e.g. (individual pages in pdf not jpg)

> http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55623h.pagination

> a page of

> http://gallica.bnf.fr/

I just see they have someting new

Under "*tÃ©lÃ©charger"* one can opt for *combining multiple pdf pages*

*Choisissez le dÃ©but de votre sÃ©lection : **
     1Ã¨re page
Choisissez la fin de votre sÃ©lection :
    Jusqu'Ã  la fin de l'ouvrage*

One can also get *tiff *versions of the pages.

Regards,

Roger

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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>

Subject: LL-L "Technica" 2009.03.07 (05) [E]

Curiously, the repeat message thing seems to have cured itself for the
moment.  I still get the odd characters though, and it doesn't seem to make
any difference which coding option I click.  I'm developing quite a skill at
mentally filtering out the garbage, which is probably of linguistic interest
in itself!

Paul

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