[seqfan] Re: Do you know somebody of Project Gutenberg's staff?

[Brendan McKay]

The way that court cases usually go is that some representative
examples of the alleged offence are considered. PG probably
blocked all content to Germany because there are many other
books in the same situation as these particular seven.

I notice that the first of the seven books is also available in a
second copy on archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/fltenunddolchen00manngoog/page/n7
Is it visible from Germany?

I suggest, firstly, that it is a waste of time trying to get PG to make
particular books available in Germany.  And, secondly, that some
of the books are probably visible at other sites, so an extra URL
could be added.

Brendan.

On 1/1/19 5:42 am, Allan Wechsler wrote:
> The decision to block *all *of Project Gutenberg's content in Germany was
> not an accident nor an oversight. One could argue that it was not a correct
> decision, but this would be a political argument inappropriate to this
> forum.
>
> The CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF) is Dr.
> Gregory Newby; his email address is gbnewby (at) pglaf.org.
>
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 11:22 AM Georg.Fischer <georg.fischer at t-online.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> while chasing for broken links in the OEIS I stumbled
>> over the strange fact that *all* files of Project Gutenberg (PG)
>> are blocked in Germany.
>>
>> Details are described in <https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html>,
>> but as I understand it PG lost a copyright lawsuit against
>> S. Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt/Germany because PG offers *18* German
>> titles of Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks), Heinrich Mann and Alfrd Döblin,
>> In Germany the copyright expires only 70 years after the death of
>> the authors (in 1950, 1955 and 1957).
>>
>> Subsequently PG implemented a total blocking of German users,
>> not a selective one for those 18 titles. Therefore we also cannot
>> currently access links to *Project Gutenberg files in 58 OEIS sequences*.
>>
>> My question is whether there is anybody in the OEIS community
>> who knows somebody in the staff of Project Gutenberg.
>>
>> With my good wishes for the New Year -
>> Georg
>> (from the Black Forest in south-west Germany)
>>
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