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

[Wouter Meeussen]

Georg,

does http://www.gutenberg.org/files/682/682.txt work for you?

Wouter.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Georg.Fischer 
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 6:24 PM 
To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu 
Subject: [seqfan] Re: Do you know somebody of Project Gutenberg's staff? 

My concern are not the Thomas + Heinrich Mann works,
(my wife has most of them in printed books anyway).

Some of my obstacles were the 8 OEIS sequences which contain
links to ibiblio.org:
3 http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext01/brnll10.txt
2 http://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext01/fbncc10.txt 
2 http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext01/zeta310.txt
1 http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext94
               /2sqrt10a.txt
These URLs are not really broken, but the page says that the file
is no longer on ibiblio.org ("quasi-broken"). I could repair
these links, but then they join the other 48 gutenberg.org
links which are not accessible in Germany, among them:

%H A000040 Project Gutenberg Etext, <a 
href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/65">First 100,000 Prime Numbers</a>
%H A030169 Simon Plouffe, editor, <a 
href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/634">Miscellaneous Mathematical 
Constants</a> Project Gutenberg, 1996 [see "Minimal y of GAMMA(x)" 
paragraph].
%H A006752 T. Papanikolaou and G. Fee, <a 
href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/812">Catalan's Constant 
[Ramanujan's Formula] to 1,500,000 places</a> [Gutenberg Project Etext]
%H A054245 Project Gutenberg, <a 
href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/156">Symphony No. 5 in C minor 
Opus 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven</a> (MIDI files). [From _M. F. Hasler_, 
Jun 12 2012]

I think that, with some effort and good will, Project Gutenberg could 
geo-block those 18 files only, and even could (and should) find out the 
other cases where authors's rights are not yet expired.

But my problem seems to be - as Brendan noted - a waste of time.
Regards - Georg

> * Brendan McKay <Brendan.McKay at anu.edu.au> [Jan 01. 2019 11:11]:
>> 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 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.

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