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EU copyright & electronic publication
by Dot Porter 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone on the list can help me figure out some issues having to do with the copyright dates that apply to publications in the EU. Let's say that I've found an edition of a medieval text published in an EU member country in 1973, the author is alive, and I want to publish it on my website. How do I figure out if this is under copyright protection or in the public domain? Referring to the 1993 EU copyright law (http://europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdo…) the critical points are: Article 5 Critical and scientific publications Member States may protect critical and scientific publications of works which have come into the public domain. The maximum term of protection of such rights shall be 30 years from the time when the publication was first lawfully published. If this is the law, then any edition published before 1975 (even if the author is alive) is fair game. However, Article 1, point 1 says this: 1. The rights of an author of a literary or artistic work within the meaning of Article 2 of the Berne Convention shall run for the life of the author and for 70 years after his death, irrespective of the date when the work is lawfully made available to the public. (The Berne Convention defines literary or artistic work as "every production in the literary, scientific and artistic domain, whatever may be the mode or form of its expression" - which is pretty broad ( http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/2.html). Translations, adaptations, and arrangements count, as do encyclopedias & anthologies.) So how do I decide if the edition in my hand falls under Article 1 or Article 5? Is it pretty straightforward (any edition of a public domain text falls under Article 5), or is there some ambiguity? I fear the question comes down to, exactly how much do you have to do to a public domain text (Article 5) before it becomes a new original text (Article 1)? What about critical apparatus? Editorial introductions? Is it possible for different parts of the same book to fall under different copyright protections (the edited text vs. the apparatus and introductions)? Thanks, Dot -- *************************************** Dot Porter, Program Coordinator Collaboratory for Research in Computing for Humanities University of Kentucky 351 William T. Young Library Lexington, KY 40506 dporter(a)uky.edu 859-257-9549 ***************************************

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Questions about Junicode
by Roberto Rosselli Del Turco 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Hi Peter and all fellow digivalists, I've got a couple of questions about Junicode, I'm posting here on DM-L as I think others might be interested in your answers. Thanks in advance. 1. I casually noticed that a new version is out AND that there is an announce mailing list: perhaps announcements of new releases could also be forwarded to dm-l? I subscribed to the announcement ml, but it could be useful for those on this list who haven't subscribed (yet). 2. Installation under Linux: the instructions are very clear, but I noticed that there is a file (/etc/defoma/hints/ttf-junicode.hints) in my installation not included in the zip archive, is this file created using the "fc-cache junicode" command? Doesn't seem the case at first look. 3. I'm very glad to see that Junicode is slowly but surely becoming a fully MUFI compliant font, but what about characters not yet in MUFI? what's the best way to ask for their inclusion? filing a feature request to MUFI first (and putting you in CC:)? or you'd be glad to consider it first? 4. I really like the (oldish) Beowulf-1 font, any plans to revamp it or include it inside Junicode's PUA (I would settle with that)? Hope this request doesn't sound too weird :) Again on Junicode under Linux: Debian offers excellent support, the latest version is already available as a standard DEB package (unstable branch); for RPM based distros I built an RPM package which has been accepted in the Mandriva contrib repository, but it needs to be updated to the latest version (hence question n. 2). Ciao -- Roberto Rosselli Del Turco roberto.rossellidelturco at unito.it Dipartimento di Scienze rosselli at ling.unipi.it del Linguaggio Then spoke the thunder DA Universita' di Torino Datta: what have we given? (TSE) Hige sceal the heardra, heorte the cenre, mod sceal the mare, the ure maegen litlath. (Maldon 312-3)

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XML/TEI Workshop at Kalamazoo 2006
by Patricia Kosco Cossard 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

XML and TEI: Introduction Thursday, May 4, 10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Session 59: Waldo Library Classroom A Instructor: James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive This workshop offers an introduction to best practices for digital scholarship, taught by a medievalist, James Cummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes: introductory-level XML and structural encoding, as well as new TEI P5 standards and guidelines, markup concerns for medieval transcription, manuscript description metadata, XML Editors, including assignments to be completed during clinic (11:30 - 12:30). Limited to 33 participants, registration is required (for info: pcossard at umd.edu). Fee is $50 for pre-registrants, $60 for walk-ins. Please mail c/o Patti Cossard, Architecture Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Include your contact information and check for fee payable to Medieval Academy of America. XML and TEI: Clinic I Thursday, May 4, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Waldo Library Classroom A This clinic immediately follows the "XML and TEI: Introduction" workshop (10:00 - 11:30 a.m.), assignments from that class can be completed during this proctored clinic. XML and TEI: Advanced TEI P5 Customization and Transformation Thursday, May 4, 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Waldo Library Classroom A Instructor: James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive This workshop offers advanced instruction in customization and transformation of TEI encoded XML files, taught by a medievalist, JamesCummings, specifically for medievalists. Instruction includes: advanced-level concepts of TEI P5 modularization and customization for individual projects, schemas, XSLT for XML transformation, Xquery and XML Databases, including assignments to be completed during clinic (5:00- 6:00). Limited to 33 participants, registration is required (for info: pcossard at umd.edu). Fee is $50 for pre-registrants, $60 for walk-ins. Please mail c/o Patti Cossard, Architecture Library, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Include your contact information and check for fee payable to Medieval Academy of America. XML and TEI: Clinic II Thursday, May 4, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Waldo Library Classroom A This clinic immediately follows the "XML and TEI: Advanced TEI P5 Customization and Transformation" workshop (3:30 -5:00 p.m.), assignments from that class can be completed during this proctored clinic.

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17 Apr '06

The cited EU copyright directive (NOT: law) is referring to works fallen already in the public domain. Short information on the EU "publication right": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_right German law knows an addional right for critical editions with a 25 year term after publication. This is referring to the consolidated text and not-copyrighted parts like critical apparatus. According to the common law "sweat of the brow" theory it seems impossible to find a modern scholarly edition which is not copyrighted (beside of the mentioned protection by the EU "publication right" or the German protection for critical editions) . I do not accept the theory that it would be an incentive for making editions if other scholars are not allowed to make fair use of an other edition. As an OPEN ACCESS advocate I have formulated my request for OPEN ACCESS to scholarly editions in German in the Vienna conference papers "Vom Nutzen des Edierens". Available online at: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/230198/ Klaus Graf

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[Fwd: Call for posters and demonstrations: TEI Members Meeting 2006]
by Daniel O'Donnell 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

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[Fwd: Nebraska Digital Workshop]
by Daniel O'Donnell 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

FYI

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Digital incunabula
by Daniel O'Donnell 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

I was going through my electronic editions the other day, and was surprised how many I had--some quite old fashioned looking now, admittedly--from 1997~1999. Many of these are now out of "print" and, I would guess, unlikely to be "reprinted" in their original form due to subsequent changes in technology. In some cases, copies are likely to be found in libraries around the world, so preservation for those is probably less of an issue. But some of the really early html/flash/etc ones in my collection were far more informally published. In some cases, I just have a disk from the author. The editions I have are internet age incunabula and are not yet obsolete from an operating system perspective. But of course editions and digital projects go back much farther--hypercard, dos, unix programmes, etc. Does anybody know if anywhere is actively collecting/preserving this kind of material? Obviously the Oxford Text Archive does collect texts--but in the pre-internet and early SGML days, you also had information machines where content was very closely associated with software (for a discussion of one famous case see: http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/7/ecolumn.html). -d

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GUIDE to DIGITAL LIBRARIES
by pmorpurgo＠libero.it 08 Apr '06

08 Apr '06

Dear Daniel O'Donnel, thank you very much for your wonderful articles on Electronic Mediaevalia. It may interest all of you my work: GUIDA DIDATTICA ALLE BIBLIOTECHE DIGITALI in www.morpy.blogspot.com . Yours sincerely, Piero Prof. Piero Morpurgo http://www.morpurgo.wide.it tel. 00390444320194 P.O. Box 624 36100 Vicenza Italy

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[Fwd: On etexts and databases about women writers in cyberspace]
by Daniel O'Donnell 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Since we have been talking about virtual piazzas and the like this seems like it might be relevant for us as well, though of course the projects are much later than us. Interestingly I was at the Renaissance Society of America meeting and similar things came up there. -d

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Digital MGH
by Clemens Radl 06 Apr '06

06 Apr '06

Hi all, a couple of weeks ago I promised to enter a project description of the dMGH into the dm-l wiki. Finally, I managed to create a short page: <http://sql.uleth.ca/dmorgwiki/index.php/DMGH_%28digital_Monumenta_Germaniae…> (It's linked to from the "Projects"-page.) This is roughly a translation of our starting page at <http://www.dmgh.de>, which unfortunately is only available in German (as is our whole project site so far, but most of our texts are Latin anyway ;-) ). But note that it's not meant to be a literal translation. Usually I would not announce changes to the wiki on the list, but as the subject has already been on the list a few weeks ago, I thought this was appropriate. Also, this is meant to be an invitation -- especially for native English speakers -- to correct any obvious mistakes and any awkward phrases or word positions. I'm not sure when we are going to be able to present an internationalized version of the dMGH, so this page will probably serve as the major English reference to the dMGH for quite some time. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Clemens -- Clemens Radl Monumenta Germaniae Historica Projekt Digitale Monumenta (dMGH) Postfach 34 02 23 D - 80099 München +49 89 28638-2380

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