On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Jean-Pierre Coulon wrote:
> {slightly off topic:}
> This Duphly site raises an interesting copyright issue, about which I
> have always been curious:
>
> Some facsimile publishers put a copyright notice on their facsimiles.
> In other words, you may not re-photocopy what they have photocopied.
> (I assume a facsimile is nothing but a well bound, hight quality photocopy).
>
> I have seen such notices on Minkoff's facsimiles, and I guess Fuzeau
> has such notices too (Minkoff is still more expensive than Fuzeau).
>
> Any comments ? May be we should hurry to download the Duphly
> stuff before this Duphly site is forced to close :-)
If you once have made a "high quality photocopy" of an old source, you'll
know that this might be quite a lot of work. Therefore even if copyright
may be the wrong term since it is made for protecting the rights of the
author, I find it understandable that publishers of facsimile editions ask
people for paying the edition and not reproducing their "high quality
photocopy". If you ask the photographic service of a library for making a
good quality copy of a manuscript for you, you'll pay in most
circumstances more than what you'd pay for a printed Fuzeau edition for
example.
Anyhow, if people are willing to publish things free, so much the better.
Bernhard
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