Back in late 2009, I tried to obtain permission from the BAV to use one image of a folio from a Virgil manuscript as a cover or at least as a frontispiece for my forthcoming monograph, "The Methods of Medieval Translators (2011).
      Permission denied.
     -Raymond Cormier



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Subject:Re: [dm-l] Jan 2013: 256 BAV MSs accessible on-line
From:Neven Jovanoviæ <neven.jovanovic@ffzg.hr>
To:dm-l@uleth.ca
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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.
>
> Marjorie, a bit puzzled :)
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