Hi,
regarding Vatican's copyright statement, I think that there are some things that can be built, or prototyped -- e. g. a text linking to a page of a MS like they did in <monumenta.ch> -- that do not infringe Vatican Library's copyright. Such projects, surely, risk that the link will vanish overnight -- but the site does offer us (in German, I guess) "Persistente URL" for its images.
And I guess that it would depend what we ask the authorisation for. A scholarly undertaking, such as publishing an on-line edition which uses BAV's images, should be acceptable, and they should actually be glad that somebody wants to do this. Otherwise, why spend so much money for digitisation?
Best,
Neven Jovanovic Zagreb, Croatia
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 Or does "text" refer to the manuscript descriptions? In this case, fair enough.
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