--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, i18n
<i18n@...> wrote:

> At 11:43 PM 1/12/2003 +0000,

etaonsh <rcom@...> wrote:

> >--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com,
> >starner@... wrote:
> >> Being a volunteer for Project
> >Gutenberg, I instinctually

checked

> >it out and scanned it into the
> >computer. So I can offer a copy

to

> >anyone who wants one, and has an

FTP

> >site to upload it to.
>
> Does PG have guidelines for

verifying a book is in PD before
copying it? I mean besides "its
really old, more than a hundred
years, so it must be OK"? Is there a
procedure that was used to vet the
status? One mistake is all it will
take to destroy the good name and
works of PG and other projects by
association.

>
> Barry Caplan
> www.i18n.com
>

I gather you are referring to
possible breaches of copyright here.
Much as I am in general punctilious
about the law, myself, I must admit
to being more concerned, in this
instance, about the 'totally
legal'(?) historical suppression of
Welsh language, the property of the
Welsh people, than in worries about
the copyright of a copyright owner
who owns a book displaying the
defiant runes of the Welsh
resistance movement, at no stage the
latter having likely been asked
regarding THEIR copyright
permission.

>

Richard Comaish