Dnia 2 Lutego 2013, 2:38 pm, So, Marjorie Burghart napisał(a):
On 2 February 2013 02:58, Dot Porter dot.porter@gmail.com wrote:
"Neither the text nor the images may be reproduced, in any form, without the authorisation of the Vatican Library, 00120, Vatican City. "
Is this from the BAV website? I haven't noticed that... If it means the BAV think they hold a copyright on the *TEXT* in the manuscript, that's totaly unheard of - and absurd! :s
Not totally unheard...
To be more precise, you are correct that claiming the copyright would be absurd, but the owner of the property has the right to restrict its use any way he wishes.
It's pity that the right is often overused in digital libraries. Recently in Poland the access to almost 3 milions of scanned paper slips of the Late Middle Polish dictionary (work in progress), which was free for months, has been retracted without any explanation or justification...
Best regards
Janusz