Talk:Gray's Anatomy
From Academic Kids
The edition on bartleby's says:
TWENTIETH EDITION THOROUGHLY REVISED AND RE-EDITED BY WARREN H. LEWIS ILLUSTRATED WITH 1247 ENGRAVINGS
PHILADELPHIA: LEA & FEBIGER, 1918 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000
Does this mean that the text on their site is NOT public domain? Is there any electronic source containing the unabridged contents of this book?
What about the images? Surely I can't just colour-in a public domain source, then claim copyright?? Coz that's all they've done.
thanks for your help :)
- IANAL, but I would think that Bartleby might possibly be able to claim copyright on the specific HTML pages they've put up — not however on the text or any unmodified pictures. So you can't just copy a HTML page from their site and stick it on yours, but you should be ok to copy passages of any length, because they don't own copyright on the text (or, again, unmodified images).
- Ropers 00:12, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Refused permission
I was looking for some illustrations to add to my site www.everyday-taichi.com - specifically I wanted to show the link between various tai chi exercises and the muscles they use.
I asked Bartelby for permission to use some of their Gray's Anatomy illustrations - and they refused. I understand that if they add significant original content that the work becomes "new" but I thought that the old stuff was availble to copy.
Does this mean that any action to convert the book into a web page makes it original and hence creates a new copyright?
Does this mean I need to find an actual physical book and scan it myself?
Or is there another on line source of this edition?
- They refused? Hah! They can refuse all they want, but it's public domain! Anything they have added value to by modifying may be their property, but the actual original text and images are public domain, through and through. So you can use it. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 17:41, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)
Regular Expressions
Here's a handy-dandy regular expression I use when gathering text from the Bartelby site. It converts headings into wiki-headings:
\n\([a-zA-Z0-9./-]+\).\x97
to
\n=== \1 ===\n
This is for the Textpad search-and-replace function, which I believe uses POSIX. -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 17:45, 2005 Mar 19 (UTC)
