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

[William H. Fite]

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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