All
While not wanting to be seen as a party pooper, the issue of copyright
remains the single biggest impediment to compiling or selling such CDs or
putting them online.
At the very minimum, GFA as the "owner" of the magazines would have to give
it the OK.
However it's even more complex than that, because it may be possible that
each and every author of every article ever written would likewise have to
give their approval to allow their individual articles to be
redistributed. It all depends what the original terms were that the
original manuscripts were submitted to AG. Going back to 1948, the
Internet and digital reproduction never existed and so copyright law and
the terms of submission to AG may not have foreseen such an
eventuality. Ditto for all the photographs, and possibly advertisements
that have appeared.
See the following Fact Sheet from the Australian Copyright Council
http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/InfoSheets/G013.pdf
Especially the "Publishing" section on page 5
While most authors in the gliding community might not care too much about
such a project, and gladly turn over their rights (assuming they're not
assigned to the GFA by default), there might be others, like Bernd Eckey,
who has indicated (if I recall his articles correctly) that they were going
to put them together into book form, presumably for sale. Some articles
have also been reprinted in AG with permission from other soaring
publications - that permission probably does not extend to redistribution
via CD / Internet means.
While this project seems like a good way to preserve an important part of
Australian gliding history, we must all accept that we live in a society
where such projects do not find themselves free of the (seemingly
restrictive) laws of the land simply because they are well-meaning.
It would only take a complaint from one of the multitude of authors to
bring this whole idea unstuck. Tread very carefully people !
Cheers
Jason Armistead
At 02:03 PM 25/05/2005, you wrote:
> >Well, I have some info... Ann Woolf at Waikerie has been scanning her
> >collection of AGs, running from 1948 to 1997. The scanned AGs will be
> >for sale on CD.
> That's pretty awesome. I look forward to hearing more.
Ann's up to 1989, and plans to scan them up to 1997 when the format of the
magazine changed. The CDs will cost about $20 each, plus p&p. A couple of
years' worth fit on one CD. The whole collection will probably be 12 CDs.
CD1 1951 - 1961
CD2 1962 - 1966
CD3 1967 - 1970
CD4 1971 - 1974
CD5 1975 - 1977
CD6 1978 - 1980
CD7 1981 - 1983
CD8 1984 - 1986
CD9 1987 - 1989
If you're interested in these, best thing would be to contact Ann Woolf,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or 08 8541 3982.
> Have you considered putting the entire thing on line? That would make
> the documents themselves searchable (and even the photos if one
> considers searching captions as equivalent (not always the case).
The magazines aren't scanned to text: doing all that OCR would be a
*really* big job. As it is, Ann's been working on this full-time for
months.
> .. Are
> there any copyright or other barriers to putting everything on line?
That I don't know. But I believe there's no problem with putting Ann's
index online, because she created it herself. I'll let the list know when
I have something useful to show.
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