Comments on: deep access to digitised cultural heritage material http://www.stoa.org/archives/211 Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere. Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dr. Klaus Graf http://www.stoa.org/archives/211/comment-page-1#comment-2074 Dr. Klaus Graf Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:02:32 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=211#comment-2074 According to the Bridgeman v. Corel NY decision in 1999 it is clear for me that digitised content is not copyrightable. There is a new term COPYFRAUD to call such strategies to monopolize the PUBLIC DOMAIN, see
http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/?p=197

The Internet Archive makes in its text collection the Djvu-filesof PD works freely available. Thus you can take the ANALECTA HYMNICA volumes, make a own navigation and better OCR and offer an Open Access resp. Open Content alternative to Mr. Rauner’s toll access digitisation of the “AH”.

May be UTA PD map collection is worth mentioning in this contexts. There are no restriction using the maps. A lot of PD stuff is available in Wikimedia Commons, a great repository of free images.

Wikipedia would like to use free pictures from the Stoa collection but the licences are not sufficient for Wikipedia use. Wikipedia needs CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. NC is not allowed.

Greetings from Germany
Klaus

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