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Re: [ATM] Books
Dominic,
Thank you for that information. Copyrights do expire, I am an attorney, but
not one who practiced intellectual property law. The 70 year time frame (Or
perhaps 50 years after the death of the author who held the copyright) is a
benchmark to put works into the "public domain"
Also thank you for the citation format. I am always interested in learning
how to get things right.
My research has revealed several other ATM books from the end of the 19th
century. As I am always trying to add to my library of all things telescope,
I may also look into them.
Regards,
Francis J. O'Reilly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic-Luc Webb" <dlwebb@canit.se>
To: "Richard Ozer" <rozer@pacbell.net>
Cc: <foreilly@bestweb.net>; <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Books
>
> Hi everyone, and of course, season's greetings regardless of your faith!
>
> In publishing my doctoral thesis, I got a little experience in dealing
> with works that are long out of print. I wanted to include a figure
> from a book published about 1850 and the publisher no longer existed,
> but the library had the book. As it turned out, there is a "rule" that
> books that have been out of print for more than 70 years can be copied
> and even re-distributed. As regards my thesis, librarian scanned the
> figure and a short excerpt. It may interest you to know how we dealt with
> citing this since the publisher does not any longer exist. If others
> wanted to read for themselves from my original source to see that I had
> correctly cited it, how would they do this? It turns out that the "rule"
> is that you cite the specific library you found the work in, the date,
> and the name of the librarian who scanned/copied it. It turned out that
> credits/citations also go to the library that houses the book.
>
> Sadly, I cannot go to UC Berkeley libraries myself for a while (back
> problems prevent me from flying at the moment), but if someone else
> is willing to contact a librarian there, I think they should be able to
> make some kind of arrangement as described above. Who knows, maybe this
> book could end up as an online PDF.
>
>
> Dominic-Luc Webb
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Richard Ozer wrote:
>
>> The only copy I've ever seen was at the UC Berkeley science library. Not
>> an easy book to find...
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Francis J. O'Reilly
>> To: atm@atmlist.net
>> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:37 PM
>> Subject: [ATM] Books
>>
>>
>> Group,
>>
>> I am looking for a copy of Rev. Ellison's work, "The Amateur's
>> Telescope"
>> published in about 1920 and referred to by Ingalls in ATM volume 1.
>> Does
>> anyone have a copy they would consider parting with? If so, or if you
>> know
>> where I could find one, I am interested in purchasing the work. I have
>> an
>> extensive ATM library and this would be a welcome addition.
>>
>> Regards and best wishes to all for the holidat season.
>>
>> Francis J. O'Reilly
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