[om] AMS55 Online // Copyright??

[Stephen J. Schmidt]

I am asserting copyright over the scanned images, not over the material
itself.  The material itself if public domain I believe, but I would
like to prevent someone else from taking our page scans and posting them
on their Web site.  (If you want to post it on your Web site like we
have done, as least by a copy of the book and scan it yourself like I
did.)

I am definitely going to post a 200dpi version, and I am considering
posting a 300dpi version.  I am probably also going to scan the document
using OCR so that I can post the accompanying text with each page and
allow the search engines to index that text.  I do not think it will be
possible to use OCR to produce a nice HTML-based version of the book
like the DLMF project is attempting because of all the mathematical
notation, but if someone knows of a suitable OCR program, I will
definitely provide them with a copy of the 300dpi scans for them to try
it.

Steve Schmidt
ConvertIt.com, Inc.
http://www.convertit.com
mailto:steve at convertit.com
telephone: +1-517-256-1939

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-om at openmath.org [mailto:owner-om at openmath.org] On Behalf Of
Richard Fateman
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 9:08 AM
To: om at openmath.org
Subject: Re: [om] AMS55 Online // Copyright??


I noticed that each page now says copyright Convertit, 2002.
Is this actually meaningful?  Can one assert copyright on
something that is in the public domain?  Can you copyright just the
electronic copy of such an object?

On a more technical note,
I think the 150 dpi version is ok, but 100dpi might be hard to use.
300dpi would be easier to read. An automatic conversion of AMS55
to a real reusable digital form would be interesting, though NIST's DLMF
would presumably supercede all this, someday.

RJF




Stephen J. Schmidt wrote:

> I've seen some discussions of AMS55 on this list before, so I thought
> some of you might be interested to know that I scanned the entire
AMS55
> and posted it on my Web site.  Right now, I have the 150dpi version
> available, but I plan on posting 200dpi and 100dpi versions also, and
> releasing a 300dpi Adobe Acrobat version.  If you would like to see
it,
> you can visit:
> 	http://www.convertit.com/go/convertit/reference/ams55.asp
> 
> Steve Schmidt
> ConvertIt.com, Inc.
> http://www.convertit.com
> mailto:steve at convertit.com
> telephone: +1-517-256-1939
> 
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