Dear Colleagues, I understand that questions have been raised regarding our reprints of books whose copyrights may still be held by extant Yiddish publishers. Although the oversight was inadvertent and involves only a very small fraction of the 13,000 volumes we've digitized to date, and although we've actually sold only a handful of copies of such titles, we nonetheless regard this concern with the utmost seriousness. We have therefore taken action to make sure it never happens again. I have just written to each of the active Yiddish publishers, asking permission to reprint their protected works. If they agree, their titles will remain in our catalog; if their answer is no, their protected titles will be immediately removed. Of course, the vast preponderance of the titles we've digitized are in the public domain, and we will continue to make reprints of these available as before, at www.yiddishbooks.org.
Sincerely, Aaron Lansky, President National Yiddish Book Center Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
