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   Message 128,948 of 130,039   
   Charles Ellson to MB@nospam.net   
   Re: Copyright period for English newspap   
   23 Mar 19 02:37:12   
   
   From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:27:27 +0000, MB  wrote:   
      
   >On 22/03/2019 00:58, Charles Ellson wrote:   
   >> IMU they can prevent you transcribing but not due to copyright   
   >> considerations rather than contractual. As with e.g. banning people   
   >> with brown shoes from entering your premises, there might not be any   
   >> legal sanction available other than not allowing access.   
   >   
   >When people use BNA transcriptions, they normally go through the   
   >transcription and correct errors (or at least most of them).  This   
   >improves the quality of the BNA's transcription and also their search   
   >system which relies on the transcription.   
   >   
   If the OCR quality has been comparable to the Australian version then   
   there is a fairly clear amount of new creation involved in those   
   online corrected transcriptions.   
      
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