On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 02:13:35AM +, jonathon wrote:
> On 22/01/2016 18:15, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
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> > I can confirm that Jonathan's claim is false.
>
> _Twin Books v Disney (83 F 3d 1162)_ is the case law, and as such
> confirms what I wrote.
>
> I am not a lawyer. This is not
On 22/01/2016 18:15, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
> I can confirm that Jonathan's claim is false.
_Twin Books v Disney (83 F 3d 1162)_ is the case law, and as such
confirms what I wrote.
I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice.
jonathon
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What you say is in line with what I remember to be the case. But I
haven't checked in a long time. There is also DMCA which criminalizes
the act of circumventing an access control even for PD texts. This only
means one has to be careful about how one obtains the PD texts. One of
the treaties,
I can confirm that Jonathan's claim is
false. See
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_lengths
etc.
We err on the side of cautio
It’s really complicated. It used to be a short time (IIRC 17 years). Then it
was lengthened to lifetime. But the definition of lifetime is really
complicated. It depends on who created the work (e.g. individual or group). And
it may be defined in terms of the immediate heirs. Further complicated
Dear Jonathon,
you were told many, far too many times that you are not welcome on this
list. Please move on.
Kind regards
PvK
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 14:17 +, jonathon wrote:
> On 22/01/2016 10:57, Baiju M wrote:
>
> > What kind of proof will be required? Do we need complete scan
> > avail
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 20:11 +0530, Baiju M wrote:
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> If this is correct, we may need to take down the Malayalam bible from
> the Crosswire server. The Malayalam bible was published in 1910. So,
> can anyone please confirm on this?
Jonathon is not a person anyone on this list gives any credit for
Aren't all (or almost all) copyrights from before 1940 expired at this
point, under US Law? I thought there was a 76 year expiration on those
older copyrights.
--Greg
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 8:32 AM, David Haslam wrote:
> If anyone in a suitable jurisdiction is interested, here's the tech stuff.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 08:11:05PM +0530, Baiju M wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:47 PM, jonathon wrote:
> > On 22/01/2016 10:57, Baiju M wrote:
> >
> >> What kind of proof will be required? Do we need complete scan available in
> >> public?
> >
> > US Case Law implies that works first publish
If anyone in a suitable jurisdiction is interested, here's the tech stuff.
http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Creating_and_Maintaining_a_Module_Repository
David
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Which of the repos in our Master List are located outside the USA ?
Obviously IBT is, but who knows what the copyright rules are in Russia?
Perhaps we need to ask someone to create and maintain a module repository on
a "Third Party" server outside the USA and outside Russia/CIS?
Would this meet
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 7:47 PM, jonathon wrote:
> On 22/01/2016 10:57, Baiju M wrote:
>
>> What kind of proof will be required? Do we need complete scan available in
>> public?
>
> US Case Law implies that works first published in a language other
> than English, and first published outside of t
On 22/01/2016 10:57, Baiju M wrote:
> What kind of proof will be required? Do we need complete scan available in
> public?
US Case Law implies that works first published in a language other
than English, and first published outside of the United States, and
first published after 1909, are under
It also depends on whatever treaties might exist.
For general background, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act
Also not a lawyer!
David
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> Gesendet: Freitag, 22. Januar 2016 um 10:57 Uhr
> Von: "Baiju M"
> An: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum"
> Betreff: [sword-devel] Hosting non-US public domain modules
>
> Hi,
>
> Some of my friends are working on proofreading few Indian langu
Hi,
Some of my friends are working on proofreading few Indian language
Bibles which are copyright expired in India - published before 1955
(more than 60 years). Can Crosswire host these modules in the main
repository?
What kind of proof will be required? Do we need complete scan
available in publ
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