Monday, August 16, 2010

The perils of licensing defunct texts

The unfortunate thing about our present copyright system is that some copyright owners are easy to find and some are not. I wrote previously about how this phenomenon affects academics, so I really enjoyed a recent blog entry entitled "Don't do Art History" by Mary Beard, a professor of classics at Cambridge, about her harrowing experiences trying to get rights to reproduce photos from the Soprintendenza of Pompeii and other characters.

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