Comments on: Does an ‘open’ scan of a shakespeare folio exist? http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2006/10/15/does-an-open-scan-of-a-shakespeare-folio-exist/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:44:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: admin http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2006/10/15/does-an-open-scan-of-a-shakespeare-folio-exist/#comment-6 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:34:28 +0000 http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2006/10/15/does-an-open-scan-of-a-shakespeare-folio-exist/#comment-6 <p>In the HTML case what they'd claim is the rights in the html version. If you were to re-extract the text and use it you probably wouldn't infringe copyright.</p> <p>In the case of scans again the scanner gets a copyright in the <em>scan</em>. If you then transcribe the text the scanner doesn't have any copyright over your transcription.</p> <p>Here we were looking not just to get the text for a first folio but an image of a first folio text that could be used for decorative purposes.</p> In the HTML case what they’d claim is the rights in the html version. If you were to re-extract the text and use it you probably wouldn’t infringe copyright.

In the case of scans again the scanner gets a copyright in the scan. If you then transcribe the text the scanner doesn’t have any copyright over your transcription.

Here we were looking not just to get the text for a first folio but an image of a first folio text that could be used for decorative purposes.

]]> by: DougMo http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2006/10/15/does-an-open-scan-of-a-shakespeare-folio-exist/#comment-5 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:33:58 +0000 http://blog.openshakespeare.org/2006/10/15/does-an-open-scan-of-a-shakespeare-folio-exist/#comment-5 <p>How can someone by just scanning or formating into HTML claim that they somehow own intellectual property? I can see how the site design could be copywrited, but the orginal material?</p> <p>Isn't that theft from the public and fraud?</p> How can someone by just scanning or formating into HTML claim that they somehow own intellectual property? I can see how the site design could be copywrited, but the orginal material?

Isn’t that theft from the public and fraud?

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