[time-nuts] MIT RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES 1940-1945 (28 VOLS) on eBay

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Wed Jul 13 15:02:35 UTC 2011


That is apparently the case for the HC books.

I'm not so sure about the CDs. A friend who is an IP attorney has told me
that if you scan something, you cannot copyright the scan. You can
copyright any new content you add.

FWIW,

-John

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> On 7/13/11 6:55 AM, J. Forster wrote:
>> there is a Yahoo Group, MIT-Rad-Lab-Books where you might get lucky on
>> the
>> missing volumes.
>>
>> There was a complete, scanned set on two CDs around also. The copyright
>> status is unknown though.
>>
>
>
> Have to check for sure, but they might be non-copyright.  Were they
> funded by the U.S.Govt, for instance?
>
> (from one web page, which I recognize is not authoritative, "After the
> end of World War II, the United States government continued to pay key
> people who had worked at the Radiation Laboratory for six months to
> enable them to write about their work.")
>
> on the other hand, one would think that it would be readily findable on
> the web if it were out of copyright.  THere are links to sites which no
> longer exist, so methinks it's in copyright and MIT is out assiduously
> asking people to take down their copies when they find them.  (they tend
> to be at researchy kinds of places.. Jefferson Labs, UCSD, etc.)
>
> The CDs themselves are almost certainly copyrighted..
>
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