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

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Wed Jul 13 15:40:18 UTC 2011


I left out something. The question about scanning concerned originally
uncopyrighted material, like military instruction manuals.

My guy concluded, if the original was not copyright, a CD version of it
could not be copyright, except for any added new material.

-John

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> I just ran into one of our attorneys in the hallway.  Copyright refers to
> the intellectual property, not to the medium.  The fact that the
> intellectual property of the author is moved from a book to a CD does not
> affect copyright, so long as the content is not otherwise altered.  Think
> about it; if your friend's contention were true, we could all dodge
> copyright restrictions simply by photocopying (scanning) the material we
> wished to appropriate.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:02 AM, J. Forster <jfor at quik.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> ================
>>
>>
>> > 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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