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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
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- Subject: Re: European vs American
- Message-ID: <ewright.722300851@convex.convex.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:07:31 GMT
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- bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
-
- > Before you get too excited, this sort of technology is still
- >largely experimental
-
- In Australia, maybe. In the United States, most large cities now have
- photofinishers that will take a roll of film, or a strip of negatives,
- and put the pictures onto Kodak PhotoCD.
-
- >We haven't decided *how* the rare and fragile books should
- >be scanned (and then there's copyright and royalty payments to the
- >owners of the books, etc).
-
- In the US, copyright lasts for 50 years after the life of the author.
- This may differ in other countries, but I doubt that pre-1600 books
- would be protected by copyright anywhere.
-
- -- Nicholas van Leyden
-