Tom,
That may depend on each countries’ copyright laws.
For example, I work in a school here in Australia. We’re allowed to format shift (i.e. change the media works are stored on) as long as 1. We retain the original works & 2. The information is only
allowed to be viewed by staff and students.
I’m sure Timothy C will know a lot more specific to the UK.
Also I think (I could very well be wrong) that after a certain amount of time, after the author’s death maybe, that works move into the public domain? I only learned a bit of copyright law because
our librarian tells me off.
Brett.
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There's an odd situation here:
There is information (note the distinction between files) that was at one time released to the public. Most of it likely was legit to do that for, though some may have been not 100% permitted.
Yet, for most of the world, some of those files are as good as destroyed due to old formats.
I don't think there was any statements about making available *the same information* in different formats, but it was not explicitly permitted and the language around alterations/changes may
be seen as precluding that.
This seems to be a general problem that applies to information created and stores digitally versus dead-tree products (or things carved into stellae). And it is (to my knowledge) never taken
into account by those drafting licenses for the digital content. They really should separate the information itself as a protected IP from the file formats/etc and permit changes to formats so the data can continue to exist in the public domain.
It seems relatively inane to make every person who has what is or was a publicly distributed item go through hoops to change a format. That's an absurdity at best.
TomB
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 7:47 AM Brett Kruger <xxxxxx@kruger.id.au> wrote:
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In ART:
Many of the JPG files in this folder are also misnamed AOL ART files. See the comments above. There are several WPG files; these will open with LibreOffice Draw. There is a file SUBSECTO.000; I cannot identify the type of this file, nor find its file signature ("magic number") of ÇEÏS [C7 49 CF 53]. Word does not recognize it and will make a hash of the conversion; LibreOffice also opens it as hash.
In ART/ADLER:
Some of the GIF files in this folder are also misnamed AOL ART files. See the comments above. IrfanView will handle the WMF files, and if Ghostscript is installed, the EPS files. CorelDRAW! will also handle both.
In ART/SYLEA:
I can't open any of the files; the JPG is a misnamed ART file, the WMF file seems to have an invalid header, I don't have either CorelDRAW! or Ghostscript on the computer I was using, and I don't have any information on what will open a DSC file.
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WPG files will also open in Inkscape.
The WMF file in the case of the Sylea file is actually compressed with BINHEX, you have to decode it first before it will open.
Boy oh boy, I could waste a mountain of time on this!
Brett.
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