31 Aug
2006
31 Aug
'06
6:55 p.m.
On Thursday 31 August 2006 20:38, Barry Watzman wrote:
Re: "I wouldn't scan (especially post!) them
as JPEG images. I'd suggest
that you do this the way that Al Kossow does with Bitsavers docs - scan as
a
1bpp TIFF"
I absolutely disagree with this.
Ok. You aparently missed the point where I said "scan the parts which matter
in color".
These are not product manuals. They are magazines.
Much of the interest
is in the advertisements. Photos in the magazine are in color. I've been
doing a lot of exactly this type of work (40,000+ pages worth) and the
right way to do it is to create an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, but the scans
should, in my opinion, be color JPEGs for pages with color, and 256 shades
of gray grayscale for pages that have no color at all. All scanned at 300
dpi, unless there is a specific reason to scan at a higher resolution.
Amazingly enough, I actually care more about the articles than the adverts in
old magazines - partly because most of the stuff can't be purchased anymore.
In fact, every time I've seen someone ask about a magazine on here, they were
asking for an article, not asking about ads in it.
As to the original post, I don't think it's
inherently wrong to destroy the
magazines for scanning, and they are not all that rare, but neither are
they all that commonplace (I have a complete set from the first issue to
sometime in the mid 1980's). As to copyrights, they are copyrighted, the
copyrights are still valid, the owner (McGraw Hill) still exists and might
or might not object (much depends on what is done with them). However, the
most likely outcome even if they do object is that they send you a letter
asking you to take them down and cease distribution. I can't imagine an
actual action against anyone who complies with such a request.
I generally like to follow the "it's better to ask for forgiveness than to ask
for permission" rule, unless I'm friends with the person involved, or am
fairly sure they'll say "yes".
Of course, if it's obvious they'll say "no", I try to avoid putting
myself in
a bad place... (eg, distributing copies of things that you can still buy
copies of)
Pat
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