[Opengenalliance] old bailey proceedings

[David Mayall]

I don't see any copyright reset.

 

The copyright status of the original documents is (and must be) unchanged.

 

What I do see is a claim that the newly digitised images of those documents
are a copyright work.

 

There is nothing new about such a claim, and all suppliers of digitised
images tend to include a similar claim.

 

As Francis has already noted, such a claim lies in the grey area, It is
neither rock solid, nor completely outlandish to assume that creating a
digital image of something will create a new copyright in that digital
image. The key question will probably be "does creating an image that can
stand in place of the original require skill as opposed to simple mechanical
action".

 

 

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From: Javier Ruiz [mailto:javier at openrightsgroup.org] 
Sent: 13 May 2011 12:50
To: Organising list for Open Genealogy Alliance; ORG legal discussions
Subject: [Opengenalliance] old bailey proceedings

 

Hi 

 

There is a very interesting website with the proceedings of The Old Bailey,
which however illustrates many of the copyright issues we need to clarify in
relation to genealogy.

 

The effect of digitisation of public domain historical documents seems to be
in effect a "copyright reset". So texts form 1674 are now restricted. It is
not even clear what that copyright is trying to protect. Is all this proper
at least?

 

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/static/Legal-info.jsp

 

What do you think?

 

Javier

 

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