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Re: Google books and Verne stuff

From: wbutcher <wbutcher~at~netvigator.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 18:29:25 +0800
To: "'Jules Verne Forum'" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

I too believe that Google are wrong to be frightened by people
misinterpreting the law and trying to pretend that there is no public domain
for French works. The only genuine reason I can see is if they thought that
illustrations in the books might still be in copyright, unlikely but not
impossible in an 1893 or a 1914 book.

 

Bill

http://home.netvigator.com/~wbutcher/

1A, Kai Kuk Shue Ha, Luk Keng, NT, HONG KONG

 

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1001~at~atlanticbb.net
Sent: 01 November 2008 12:40
To: Jules Verne Forum
Subject: Google books and Verne stuff

 

Nice to know that so much is now available on google books. But Google's
policy of restricting access to perfectly public domain works is very
frustrating. First of all they restrict access to all government documents
published by the Supt. of Documents which are public domain by definition.
And then there is the one in which I was particularly interested :

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=AOIWHAAACAAJ
<http://books.google.com/books?id=AOIWHAAACAAJ&dq=roth+edward+stan>
&dq=roth+edward+stan

 

The 250 page sale catalog of the books in Edward Roth's library. (New York
Public Library).

 

The only reason for this I can see is that some cataloger classified this
using the words "private library" and google assumed this was private papers
not published books..

 

Also frustrating is their access restriction on French books such as the
Hetzels in the Oxford and Michigan Libraries they scanned. As Europe has a
fairly standard copyright law, I fail to see why French books in a British
or American library cannot be viewed.

 

nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu
Received on Sat 01 Nov 2008 - 12:34:48 IST

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