Re: Asimov Mirror Sites Access Information

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Jay:


Since you bring this up, let me alert you to a fact regarding the
seriousness with which Project Gutenberg regards copyright.

Why do you suppose that the most "recent" Tom Swift Etext on Project
Gutenberg is _Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive_?

Answer: because the next Swift in the series (Flying Boat) was published in
1923, and the only Etexts on which the copyrights are *sure* to have expired
are ones published *before* 1/1/23 (at least for the next two decades).

This is why PG's newsletters say things like "We hope you will take the
opportunity to volunteer to do your favorite book[s] from before 1923."

Project Gutenberg follows this policy even on texts which have no "normal
market" (except perhaps among book collectors).

Why should Apple2 software be treated any differently?


Frank Townsend



Obsbedia2 wrote in message <20000522001750.05617.00000777@ng-cu1.aol.com>...

>For a great source of Public Domain literature, try PROJECT GUTENBERG
OFFICIAL
>HOME SITE - INDEX - at:
>
>http://www.promo.net/pg/
>
>Some of my favorite series, the original Victor Appleton's TOM SWIFT sagas,
are
>accessible there, along with near-countless others.