TriciaG wrote: ↑March 8th, 2020, 3:29 pm
Ah, I understand what you're saying now.
It might be wise to PM the cover maker and let them know. I'll work on that, unless you would like to.
Thank you for telling me.
I just wanted to have a look if I find something about the project here and find this heavy discussion
So I'll explain it for Michelle here, too, a bit more detailed than in the pm:
The first cover came written with "humane" and as I wanted to have the succeeding covers match the first one as close as possible together, I wrote them with the e, too.
As the Gutenberg-titles are written with the e, too (the texts from Locke are 10615 and 10616; the other one is from a different author), I am for sure not the one to alter it to modern writing. Unfortunately there are no transcribers notes and I didn't hunt down the original text to look how often there occurs which writing, so I guess you just have to live with the "wrong" writing, except Amy or Craig are willing to change the title of the catalogue
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I would still be careful about such things as company logos, etc.
It is a great idea - but as Tricia said we would need to be careful about logos , and also living people . And I noticed a Kermit the frog amongst them - I would think that Sesame Street had rights over that. So we would need to think of that too.
But on a quick look I'd love to use some of the ones I saw
annise wrote: ↑March 19th, 2020, 11:45 am
It is a great idea - but as Tricia said we would need to be careful about logos , and also living people . And I noticed a Kermit the frog amongst them - I would think that Sesame Street had rights over that. So we would need to think of that too.
But on a quick look I'd love to use some of the ones I saw
Stay away from living people, identifiable characters and logos, etc., and it should be OK. Just use more general stuff and older stuff, and if something is questionable, either don't use it or ask about it.
My non-lawyer take on this kind of thing is that the Smithsonian hasn't copyrighted their image of the artwork, but that doesn't mean the artwork itself is public domain. We need public domain images of public domain art, so it's safest to stick with art produced before 1924 (or whatever the relevant year is for US copyright when you're looking).
As Captain Kirk would say: "Well, there you have it. There it is." 
