That is apparently the case for the HC books. I'm not so sure about the CDs. A friend who is an IP attorney has told me that if you scan something, you cannot copyright the scan. You can copyright any new content you add.
FWIW, -John ================ > On 7/13/11 6:55 AM, J. Forster wrote: >> there is a Yahoo Group, MIT-Rad-Lab-Books where you might get lucky on >> the >> missing volumes. >> >> There was a complete, scanned set on two CDs around also. The copyright >> status is unknown though. >> > > > Have to check for sure, but they might be non-copyright. Were they > funded by the U.S.Govt, for instance? > > (from one web page, which I recognize is not authoritative, "After the > end of World War II, the United States government continued to pay key > people who had worked at the Radiation Laboratory for six months to > enable them to write about their work.") > > on the other hand, one would think that it would be readily findable on > the web if it were out of copyright. THere are links to sites which no > longer exist, so methinks it's in copyright and MIT is out assiduously > asking people to take down their copies when they find them. (they tend > to be at researchy kinds of places.. Jefferson Labs, UCSD, etc.) > > The CDs themselves are almost certainly copyrighted.. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.