Text Copies

Shurtagal · Post by **Shurtagal** » July 17th, 2007, 10:21 pm

Hey all,
I was just wondering what the official party line was on recording a public domain book from an actual physical copy? Apart from the obvious difficulty proofing it would there be any problems with it provided a proof of copyright status could be obtained?

Shurtagal · Post by **Shurtagal** » July 17th, 2007, 10:41 pm

In particular Toasts by, Margaret Waters, Pub. Barse and Hopkins (New York City, New York) in 1909. http://demo.openlibrary.org/b/Toasts_1

Also, Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake confirmed PD by gutenburg http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/llake10.txt

jimmowatt · Post by **jimmowatt** » July 17th, 2007, 11:21 pm

It should be no problem.
Could you do scans of the page which has publishers information?
Hopefully that has publish date on it.
Then upload it.
Proofing (if you wanted word perfect proofing) you would have to do yourself. Otherwise other people would still be able to listen for stumbles and repeats.
Of course you could scan the book and submit it to Gutenberg ...
I seem to remember that's how we did Candide.

Post by **hugh** » July 18th, 2007, 5:25 am

one potential problem is if it is a collab project - making sure that everyone is reading from the same text.

but as jim says, no problems, and if you can scan the copyright info, we are in good shape. even better to add it into the gutenberg collection.

Shurtagal · Post by **Shurtagal** » July 18th, 2007, 12:28 pm

hugh wrote:one potential problem is if it is a collab project - making sure that everyone is reading from the same text.

but as jim says, no problems, and if you can scan the copyright info, we are in good shape. even better to add it into the gutenberg collection.

It would be a solo and i could probably get a scan of the copy right info, the book is 100 years old and hopefully it will be around for another 100.