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Can you realistically copyright a pictograph, even if it’s jewelry?
I got a great book today: Pictorial Symbols, second enlarged edition, from the Pictograph Corporation, 1943 (similar to this). The images are by Rudolph Modley, a student of Otto Neurath who I wrote about in my last post. I looked up ‘librarian’ in the index and was directed to pages 16-17, as seen below. I’m [...]
The Google Five Libraries: Two Years, Six Months, and Seven Days in the Life of Google Library Project
Is there no downside to being a library partner in the Google Library Project? Until pressed by members of the audience, the five-member panel only admitted it was a lot of work and the lawsuits were annoying. The panelists all seemed almost unconcerned that they really do not know what the ramifications of the project [...]
World Book and Copyright Day
I learned via one of my “elerts” that yesterday was World Book and Copyright Day. From the UN Site: “23 April is a symbolic date for world literature for on this date in 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other [...]
