Indeed, the Blackwell article was the first thing I read on this subject. Chris Blackwell is one of the information architects of the Homer Multitext Project.
Jonathan On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 5:01 PM Stefan Baums <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Jonathan, > > > I am not a lawyer > > here is an article by someone who is: > > https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/ckjip/vol13/iss1/6/ > > > it is NOT possible to claim copyright on two dimensional > > reproductions of two dimensional objects (not only mss but also > > paintings for example) which themselves are not subject to > > copyright > > and they do indeed come to the same conclusion as you. > > > What *can* be exterted is contact rights > > Yes, that is the true mechanism by which holding institutions, > collectors, and scholars with manuscript stashes keep them to > themselves. There is appently no law that says that just because > somebody has a copyright-free object or image, they have to make > it available to you. > > > if I were to take, for instance, the University of Washington > > Press volumes of Gandhari manuscripts and scan the images (NOT > > the text) there is nothing they could do about it > > That is true of the raw images reproduced in those volumes, though > an intellectual effort establishing a basis for copyright could > probably be claimed for the reconstructed images. > > (In any case, as far as this publication series is concerned, the > UW Press has agreed to make all volumes starting with the > forthcoming GBT 7 freely available under an open-access license, > and the plan is to extend this new arrangement to the existing > volumes once their back stock has sold out.) > > All best, > Stefan > > -- > Stefan Baums, Ph.D. > Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie > Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology > -- J. Silk Leiden University Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS Matthias de Vrieshof 3, Room 0.05b 2311 BZ Leiden The Netherlands website: www.OpenPhilology.eu copies of my publications may be found at https://leidenuniv.academia.edu/JASilk
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