From: Jonathan Robie (Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 08:37:43 EDT
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At 05:12 PM 4/27/00 -0700, George Goolde wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>Jonathan Robie wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite><font face="arial">I notice that there was an edition of Abbot-Smith's lexicon in 1922, and there was a 3rd edition in 1937. Does that mean that at least these editions are no longer under copyright?</font> </blockquote><br>
My copy identifies the First edition as 1921, the Second Edition as 1923, and the Third Edition as 1937. It identifies the "latest reprint" as 1964. I have a T. &T. Clark printing with no copyright notice.<br>
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My understanding of the old copyright law was 27 years, once renewable, hence a total of 54 years. This would mean that the copyright of the third edition would have expired in 1991. </blockquote><br>
Great - does anybody know what the differences are between the third edition and the latest reprint?<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite><blockquote type=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>Does anyone know if there is a machine-readable version of this?</font></blockquote><br>
Do you mean a clean copy that could be scanned? Or are you asking if someone has already done the scanning and has an electronic copy?</blockquote> <br>
I do not have an OCR scanner. Since this book combines Greek with English, I don't know if a straight scan would do the trick or not. Does anyone have experience with this kind of scanning?<br>
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Basically, I'm looking for any approach that would get me a legal machine-readable copy. If I can get such a thing, I'd also like to make it available over the Internet.<br>
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