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  • From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
  • To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts" <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: Licensing of old out-of-copyright facsimiles?
  • Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:52:26 -0500 (EST)


Greg London said:
> hm, if bandwidth is the problem, you could put a bunch
> of patterns into a single PDF, and upload the whole works
> to Lulu.com. Lulu is a POD publisher requiring no money
> up front, and they charge a minimum amount of money per
> book. However, you can set up free downloads. My Perl
> book on Lulu is GNU-FDL, and the entire document can be
> downloaded for free from Lulu, or people can buy a paper
> copy if they so desire.
>
> If you set it up as a book on Lulu, you could offer the
> whole thing for free download, and if someone bought a
> copy,

clarification: if someone bought a >PAPER< copy

> Lulu would make a bit of money to help pay for the
> bandwidth. Then it would be pretty much guaranteed that
> no one would have much incentive in trying to monopolize
> the public domain documents.
>
> Lulu is very open-source friendly. The founder was one
> of the original RedHat Linux people.
>
> P.S. I'll be on vacation starting tomorrow, so I may not
> be able to reply until a week from now or so.
>
>
> Judith Combs said:
>>> > I am a fiber artist, with a side interest in historical needlework.
>> I
>>> > have a collection of early (1840's - 1890's) crochet instructions,
>>> > patterns and samples that I have been translating into American
>> English
>>> > modern terminology. I ultimately want to make copies of the
>> originals
>>> > openly available to anyone who wants to use them, as long as no one
>>> > tries to restrict their use.
>>>
>>> If you put something like "Published 1890, now Public Domain"
>>> then that should be all you need to say "Hands off".
>>> If anyone tries to restrict their use, then others should be able
>>> to go to your originals. i.e. the way to prevent restrictions
>>> is to give it to more than one place so that no one has a monopoly.
>>>
>>> I don't think you can claim copyright on the originals just because
>>> you scanned them into a computer,
>>
>> Ah, thank you! That's simple, and should make sense even to
>> temperamental needleworkers - the copyright discussion flame wars in the
>> fiber art groups are nasty. I don't want to restrict use of the copies
>> of the originals - I just want to make sure no one else tries to.
>> Including the many eBay sellers who are selling them on CD's lately.
>> You're right - I'll just have to get creative about making the originals
>> accessible in enough places so that it's not worth it for anyone to try
>> to hoard them. The pdf files are usually a little less than 1 MB per
>> page, if there are illustrations, which is usually the case - I tried to
>> put 10MB worth up on a Geocities page once; the traffic overloaded the
>> site immediately, and Yahoo shut it down. But the news this morning on
>> Google's library project is good.
>> Judith
>>
>>
>>
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