Polverone
(Stranger)
07-18-02 05:08
No 333909
      Vogel 3rd edition online
(Rated as: excellent)
 Bookmark   

I have scanned the entirety of Arthur Vogel's Practical Organic Chemistry, 3rd edition, and converted it into a PDF with bookmarks for each section. It is not as compact or convenient as an OCR'd copy (you cannot search for arbitrary terms within the text), but you should be fine if you print out the table of contents and have it handy. I originally scanned the book at 600 DPI and tried to do OCR on that, but Abbyy Finereader, although a good program, doesn't deal well with chemical/technical symbols. If you have an OCR program that you think might do a better job, contact me privately and I'll arrange a transfer of the original 600 DPI TIFF files. The version presented here is 300 DPI.

This book was first published in 1956, and in my estimation that's plenty old enough to be in the public domain, especially since this particular edition will never again be printed. The law and copyright holder may not agree with me though, so this download will be active for only about a week. After that, it's up to you to keep this book available somewhere out there. Put it on Usenet binary groups, private FTP servers, Freenet, wherever people can get it. Feel free to clean it up, modify it, or convert it into other formats. I believe that I am the first to make and circulate an e-book of this particular text, but if not I only wasted a week.

I am going to be traveling and mostly offline starting this Friday and lasting for about a week, so don't get antsy if I seem unresponsive.

The PDF is wrapped in a zip file to prevent browser plugins from triggering and trying to just display the book onscreen. Download, then read. If you're on a dialup connection I highly recommend that you use a program such as GetRight to ensure that you are able to get this large (66 megabyte) file even if you are interrupted halfway through.

Now, after all the preamble, the file:
http://bcis.pacificu.edu/~polverone/practical-organic-chem.zip

19th century digital boy
 
 
 
 
    acid_egg
(Hive Bee)
07-18-02 05:13
No 333912
      Thanks!You are a star ;-)  Bookmark   

Thanks!You are a starwink
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-18-02 05:33
No 333923
      Hmm... I wonder how big it would bee in *.  Bookmark   

Hmm... I wonder how big it would bee in *.djvu format? 1/10 of a PDF file perhaps? It is over 50 years old, right? (Copyright protection)
 
 
 
 
    Dr_Heckyll
(Stranger)
07-18-02 06:04
No 333930
      Just started the download :)  Bookmark   

Getting a decent 30 kb/s, in a good 30 minutes it'll be on my drive smile.
Great job, thanks! Keep up the good work!
Once I have developed the immortality-drug, I'll send you a bottle - you
deserve it!



Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive by Men at Work
...tells my tale.
 
 
 
 
    Polverone
(Stranger)
07-18-02 06:21
No 333936
      It is not legal, sadly.  Bookmark   

I'm not sure where you (Rhodium) are located, but the U.S. Congress periodically extends copyrights whenever it looks like Mickey Mouse might enter the public domain. Copyright now extends to 75 years after the death of the author. I'm not sure when Vogel died (I found a site that suggested 1966), and if that's true I would have to wait until 2041 to share this legally, assuming that Congress did not retroactively extend copyright *again* in the meantime. I hope to avoid legal trouble and a heavy server load by hosting this file for a limited amount of time. Of course, I'm not exactly sharing the latest Steven King book here, so that eases my mind a little bit too. If someone would like to convert this to a DjVu file and it is significantly smaller, I would be happy to host that for a week also.

19th century digital boy
 
 
 
 
    ClearLight
(Hive Bee)
07-18-02 06:34
No 333941
      vogel CR  Bookmark   

  Put it up on the site!

  The servers are not in the u.s.  The u.s. copyright laws don't apply overseas...

  I don't think that there is anyone who would complain about this... go ahead and do it...

 

Infinite Radiant Light - THKRA
 
 
 
 
    Mountain_Girl
(Hive Bee)
07-18-02 09:50
No 333999
      Thanks  Bookmark   

Well done once again Polverone! You've effectively given access to literally dozens of working synths as well as very useful info on laboratory methods, etc.
(You must have a lot of time on your hands..)
 
 
 
 
    GC_MS
(Newbee)
07-18-02 18:21
No 334148
      woohoo!  Bookmark   

Many thanks Polverone! Now SWIM doesn't need to look for his book anymore... he always looses all his stuff crazy. Anyway, great work you did there.

-[ A Friend With W33D Is A Friend Indeed ]-
 
 
 
 
    Sunlight
(Pioneer Researcher)
07-18-02 19:36
No 334187
      Thank you so much !!!  Bookmark   

Thank you so much !!!
 
 
 
 
    Polverone
(Stranger)
07-18-02 21:24
No 334221
      This'll be the last book for a while...  Bookmark   

I spread the work on the two Muspratt books over months of odd moments. I had them up for a while, then the server crashed, then I put in a new hard drive and they went up again. I did Vogel in 5 days. I don't even want to look at a scanner now. I just wanted to get it done before I went traveling. I can be very monomaniacal when I have a goal in mind.

And I don't have a lot of spare time. There are many things that I should have been doing instead of scanning - sleeping, studying, packing, working... But now it is done and I can move on to other things.

19th century digital boy
 
 
 
 
    acid_egg
(Hive Bee)
07-18-02 23:02
No 334242
      Is this working?  Bookmark   

I've tried to unzip and it won't...something about file size not matching filesize recorded in zipped file...This took many hours to grab...help plz!frown
 
 
 
 
    GC_MS
(Newbee)
07-18-02 23:07
No 334243
      Your zip is probably corrupt, downloaded ...  Bookmark   

Your zip is probably corrupt, downloaded incompletely. The nice looking Russian lady next to me downloaded it since she never heard of copyright, and she told me the filesize was 69,229,192 bytes. If your size is different, your download is corrupt crazy.

-[ A Friend With W33D Is A Friend Indeed ]-
 
 
 
 
    GOD
(Hive Addict)
07-18-02 23:11
No 334244
      swim had no problems with the download.  Bookmark   

swim had no problems with the download.  He told me tell Polverone THANKS!

i FEEL funny.
 
 
 
 
    acid_egg
(Hive Bee)
07-18-02 23:14
No 334246
      recoverable  Bookmark   

Ahh..happy now!smile the damage wasn't too bad and the file was recoverable/repairable.
 
 
 
 
    Chemikaze
(HyperLab Bee)
07-19-02 06:44
No 334442
      DEJA  Bookmark   

Hey, bees,those who downloaded it already,could you convert it to dejavu format,cause i won`t be able to download such file in a week or two,too big for mefrown????Also i`m from Russia and has no problem hosting this file (dejavu file i mean)

Hmm... i wonder is it possible to convert PDF to dejavu DIRECTLY?

When I die bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass.
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-19-02 06:49
No 334444
      It should be 20-25 MB or less in DjVu format.  Bookmark   

It should be 20-25 MB or less in DjVu format. Does anyone have a running linux can, so you can convert the file using dejalibre ( http://djvu.sourceforge.net/ )?
 
 
 
 
    Polverone
(Stranger)
07-19-02 08:58
No 334487
      Nobody has the LizardTech tool?  Bookmark   

I've looked at that free implementation. It says that the encoder is not optimized. I'm running linux but I was really hoping someone had a warezed copy of the Lizardtech encoder that they could use and then forward the file to me for hosting. Is your guess of a 20-25 megabyte file based on the free tool? The Sourceforge page says it has a "simple" bitonal encoder, doesn't sound like it's going to crush the compression used in the PDF.

19th century digital boy
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-19-02 21:43
No 334669
      PDF uses no compression.  Bookmark   

PDF uses no compression. That's why the file is so big.
 
 
 
 
    Elementary
(Hive Addict)
07-20-02 02:23
No 334833
      Umm  Bookmark   

Pdf is compressed if it is not text encoded, say an image, but not as compressed as the djvu files.

If you convert a scanned A4 page as a bitmap (uncompressed) and then convert it to a pdf with acrobat, you will find the file size is much smaller.

I've got nothing to do today but smile !
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-20-02 03:18
No 334855
      Yes, it is the regular huffman encoding they use ...  Bookmark   

Yes, it is the regular huffman encoding they use (like GIF, unlike BMP). It is still not good enough. Think of DjVu compression of scanned text as a JPG compression of a color BMP. Quite a difference, right? Read more about the technical details at http://www.djvu.com/solutions/document/whitepaper/
 
 
 
 
    sYnThOmAtIc
(Hive Bee)
07-20-02 03:47
No 334866
      I have a running linux box on my network.  Bookmark   

I have a running linux box on my network. Though i have never heard of deja vu!! I want to read that tlc manual but it was deja vu. Rhodium, Shouldl i jsut go to linuxapps.com and look for dejavu under compression?

--edit:
AHHH i overloked the link. Give me a few minutes to swap HD's and download/install. Hope I dont have to compile the damn program or else i'll have to update a few things first.
 
 
 
 
    catfish
(Newbee)
07-20-02 03:58
No 334870
      can't open...  Bookmark   

Can't open the .zip file. does anybee have a solution to my predicament? I am not very computer literate but my boss at work is but he doesn't need to know about all this, so maybee a helpful bee could suggest an ?application? is that right? to use to open the file. Have win2000 and pentium II, if that helps. Thanx.
                          -catfish

...who wants honey, as long as there's some money...
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-20-02 04:11
No 334878
      The PDF file is now available at http://www.  Bookmark   

The PDF file is now available at ../rhodium/archive/vogel3.pdf for those who have trouble unzipping so large PDF files (might have something to do with low memory). The file is ~73 MB.

Due to bandwidth reasons, PLEASE download the file to your harddrive FIRST, instead of reading it online. If you don't comply with this, and I see it being downloaded several times from the same IP, I will remove it.
 
 
 
 
    Aurelius
(Hive Bee)
07-20-02 05:01
No 334896
      good bye  Bookmark   

Just wanted to say Good bye to everyone before aurelius' boss does aurelius in for printing the 1200+ page document at work.  laugh
 
 
 
 
    sYnThOmAtIc
(Hive Bee)
07-20-02 05:15
No 334899
      So do you want the dehja vu format still?  Bookmark   

So do you want the dehja vu format still? I didnt jsut do a ftp install for nothing.  Just pm me with instructions on uploading the file to you. Or i could jsut set upa user based ftp server and give you an account? let me know

--edit:
Ok qt 3.05 is still compiling fucking shit only 15megs and this is a dual pIII800 hah what a piece of shit I oughta buy another alpha sever. Anyway after that finishes I get to compile the actual program then if all is well I will have a useless bunch of new programs on my comp cause Rhodium disappeared or doesnt believe me.

---edit2: two hours later
da#n f!cking Qt sucks @ss. It is still compilingmad.

--edit:
Ok now i'm just tired and bored. Man I have downloaded iso images of all three linux mandrake 8.2 cds (2,200 mb total) plus one prosuite cd +670mb and this f^ck!ng dependency for deajlib is still creaping along Hell i could even burn all four cd's at 1x and the damn thing will still be going..........Linux has an unnesecarily long application install at times but hey I'll take it over windows anyday. I'l shut up before i get an insignificant rating.
 
 
 
 
    acid_egg
(Hive Bee)
07-20-02 05:29
No 334905
      Rhodium why don't you keep it in zip format,my ...  Bookmark   

Rhodium why don't you keep it in zip format,my problem was most likely a malfunction of 'Download accelerator plus'[used for resume function] which displayed some errors
during multiple download sessions.
Catfishs' above appears to be that he just doesn't have winzip.


When your intent is in accordance with the Universe, things start happening.
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-20-02 07:36
No 334940
      To many people will fail to download the zip file ...  Bookmark   

To many people will fail to download the zip file correctly than you have to retry with your downloader. Use getright, it works.
 
 
 
 
    sYnThOmAtIc
(Hive Bee)
07-20-02 11:26
No 335001
      File is 40mb still. couldnt get the linuxverson ...  Bookmark   

File is 40mb still. couldnt get the linuxverson working my 6.1 is too old i need to update to a newer version. I converted it online and is still pretty big. Not going to help anybody with dialup view it. The site said 10x reduction with pics only pd fand ocs is reduced 1-3x. I'd say its not worth the trouble of trying to find a djv viewer. i'm off to bed now alter.
 
 
 
 
    hypo
(Official Hive Approximator)
07-21-02 11:41
No 335431
      hmm.... debian rocks :))))  Bookmark   

> Linux has an unnesecarily long application install at times

heh... didn't take me 5 minutes:
apt-get install libqt-dev laughlaughlaugh

anyway... i would never ever download copyrighted material, but
a friend of mine living on an off-shore island with satelite feed
downloaded the pdf and compressed it at 200x200dpi using the
c44 encoder. gave a 27mb .djvu file. he could also package it as
say 10 2.7mb files. or try 100x100dpi.

ideally though, an owner of the lizardtech tools would compress
the files (i know we have some smile)
 
 
 
 
    Chemikaze
(HyperLab Bee)
07-21-02 13:41
No 335454
      soooo  Bookmark   

soooo will you friend post it for download?:)

When I die bury me upside down so the world can kiss my ass.
 
 
 
 
    hypo
(Official Hive Approximator)
07-21-02 14:11
No 335457
      hosting  Bookmark   

hmm.. if a kind soul agrees to do the hosting, i'm sure
i can convince my friend to upload/send the file(s)...
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-23-02 01:14
No 335940
      So there! Thanks to the PDF2DjVu conversion by ...  Bookmark   

So there! Thanks to the PDF2DjVu conversion by Hypo, Vogel's book is now available in its entirety at my page: ../rhodium /vogel3.html
 
 
 
 
    weedar
(To Be Banned At Sundown)
07-23-02 01:52
No 335955
      Uhmm..  Bookmark   

Not to disagree with you there,Chief,but what about copyright,
won't that cause you un-necessary problmes?frown

Weedar

Weedar contains 2,4-D dimethylamine salt,apparently
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-23-02 02:24
No 335970
      I hope there will be no problem with a book ...  Bookmark   

I hope there will be no problem with a book published 46 years ago. If there is a problem with the publisher, I'll remove it again.
 
 
 
 
    foxy2
(Distinctive Doe)
07-23-02 02:56
No 335979
      Probably no prob  Bookmark   

Its not even in print anymore is it?

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
 
 
 
 
    lugh
(Moderator)
07-23-02 02:58
No 335981
      Vogel's Third Edition  Bookmark   

It's been out of print since the 4th edition came out in 1978 smile
 
 
 
 
    HOCATKA
(Stranger)
07-26-02 06:12
No 337224
      Vogel 3rd Edition, better djvu encoding  Bookmark   

I've got Vogel 3rd edition in djvu format down to 15.2mb from 27.6 with the same graphics quality.
Let me know if you would like me to upload it somewhere.
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
07-26-02 06:32
No 337231
      What settings did you use to accomplish that?  Bookmark   

What settings did you use to accomplish that?
 
 
 
 
    HOCATKA
(Stranger)
07-26-02 18:56
No 337415
      I've used the commercial encoder.  Bookmark   

I've used the commercial encoder. DPI, color settings are the same.
 
 
 
 
    UTFSE
(Hive Bee)
07-27-02 22:44
No 337810
      not that I am really concerned BUT (1956) ...  Bookmark   

not that I am really concerned BUT
(1956) copywrite law does cover anything created and copywrited
by the original owner for a period of their life time plus so many years.
1978 and later copywrite law automatically protects the creator without even filing.

and there are more recent aspects as well

for instance one may renew the copywrite ad infinitum.
if John Wiley and Son renewed the Vogel 3rd copywrite then
it is indeed protected. and that protection is genrally recognized over most of the planet. But especially in Europe for it seems they like a mutual agreement that is both beneficial and relevant.

So even though SWIUTFSE has in fact copied the aforementioned volume, he thinks publishing it on the internet will bring about stuff on the part of any current copywrite holder.

Having said all that - Polverone (is that four syllables?) you da man.

OTEECEE & meeeee!!!!
 
 
 
 
    Buster_Hymen
(Resident Smart Assium)
07-28-02 03:51
No 337900
      Polverone, thanks man!  Bookmark   

Polverone, thanks man! Took just over 7 minutes to download your file, and it unzipped perfectly!

  \\|//
    ô¿ô    --  Anger management? Fuck that!
    \O/
      '''
 
 
 
 
    SaintCyril
(Hive Bee)
07-28-02 05:39
No 337944
      What ae you talking about  Bookmark   

Copyright law is not intended to prevent you from copying things for educational purposes and then using them in that matter, what it's inent is is to prevent you from making money off of the other person's intellectual property. If there is no money involved, and the intent of the usage is educational, then there is little chance that you have broken any copyright law here is a quick guide.

The 1976 Copyright Act grants the "fair use" of copyrighted materials for a variety of purposes, for the creation of new works, for educational use, and for personal use. The following principles provide a framework for the application of educational fair use. The goal is to enable teachers and scholars to use copyrighted materials for teaching, scholarship, and research with respect for the rights of copyright holders as well as their own rights.

The principles are based on three propositions: (1) the copyright statute regulates the copyright monopoly it grants in order to maintain an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright holders and the rights of users; (2) the copyright monopoly is essentially for marketing a work and does not extend to the copy of a work that the copyright owner has sold; and (3) the ultimate test for educational fair use is whether the copying is done for sound pedagogical reasons and not simply to avoid purchasing a work.

These ideas, and the fair use principles stated below, are grounded in the discussion that follows in Part III and in the legal authorities discussed in Part IV. The principles of fair use are derived from the Fair Use Statute, 17 U.S.C. § 107, which is printed in full in Part IV.

Fair use is derivative of copyright and is complex in part because there are three kinds of copyright, each of which varies in the scope of copyright protection:

Creative copyright, for original works such as a novel, drama, painting, sonata, or poem (plenary copyright protection)

Compilation copyright, for a directory or anthology (limited copyright protection)

Derivative copyright, for works based on another work, such as a motion picture based on a novel (limited copyright protection)

Fair use applies to all copyrighted works regardless of the media in which they are fixed: print, electronic, or multimedia.

There are four kinds of use:

Personal use is the use of a copyrighted work for the purpose for which it was intended, e.g., reading a book.

Infringing use is a use that violates one of the rights granted to copyright holders in section 106 of the copyright statute.

Fair use is a use permitted by the copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.

Constitutional use is the use of uncopyrightable, i.e., public domain, material and is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

Fair use is a right granted to users by section 107 of the copyright statute.

Fair use modifies the marketing monopoly of the copyright holder so that copyright can fulfill its constitutional purpose of promoting learning.

Everyone has a constitutional right to use public domain material without limitation, even if it is included in a copyrighted work.

One infringes a copyright, not a work, and fair use applies only to the use of the copyright. Therefore, determining if a use is fair requires making the following distinctions between a use of the work itself and a use of the copyright of the work:

One who copies a work to put it on the market uses the copyright, because the copyright holder has the right to market the work. Without permission, such a use is an infringing use.

One who copies from a work for study or research uses the work, not the copyright, because the use is a use for which the work was intended. Such a use is a fair use, not an infringement.

One may always use a work without permission; one may use a copyright only with permission or as a matter of fair use.

The threshold issue in determining fair use is whether the copying involves a use of the work or a use of the copyright because:

The use of the work is by definition a protected use.

The use of the copyright must be with permission or must fulfill fair use criteria.

Fair use normally entails copying and is of three kinds:

Creative fair use by authors who copy from other works to create their own work.

Personal fair use by individuals who copy from works for their own learning or entertainment.

Educational fair use by teachers, scholars, and students who copy for teaching, scholarship, or learning.

There are four nonexclusive statutory factors--all directed to the marketing of works-- to use in determining whether a use is fair. They are:

The purpose of the use, including whether such use is for commercial or for non- profit educational purposes. (Commercial purpose implies a use of the copyright; educational purpose, a use of the work.)

The nature of the work. (This requires a determination of whether the work is a creative work, a compilation, or a derivative work.)

The amount used in relation to the work as a whole. (The amount of the work used is a major factor in determining whether the use is merely a use of the work or a use of the copyright; the greater the amount used, the more likely the use will be a use of the copyright.)

The effect of the use on the market or potential market for the work. (The greater the market effect, the less the likelihood that the use will be fair.)

The four factors are not exclusive. Other factors that may be relevant are the availability of the work, the ability to determine whether the work is still under copyright, and the ability to locate the copyright holder.

The four factors are necessary because fair use is to be determined on a case-by-case basis in order to protect the constitutional rights of users.

Attempts to limit the fair use right with quantitative guidelines are without statutory authority.

The legal effect of quantitative guidelines is to provide a safe-harbor, i.e., copying within the guideline limits automatically qualifies as fair use. Such guidelines do not, and cannot legally, mean that copying in excess of the guidelines is infringement and not fair use.

The limitations on the copyright monopoly in sections 108-120 grant rights to non-copyright holders as to particular type uses; these rights, however, do not negate the general right of fair use, which permits uses in excess of the limitations if the additional uses are fair.

The location of the line between fair use and infringing use is determined by the market factor, that is, the extent to which the copy becomes a substitute for the purchase of the work.

The 1976 Copyright Act protects educational fair use with four different provisions:

The use of works for "teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship and research" as exemplars of fair use (Sec. 107)

The distinction between commercial and nonprofit educational use (Sec. 107(1)), a superfluous distinction unless it means special protection for educational use

The provision that fair use overrides the limitations on library photocopying (Sec. 108(f)(4))

The good faith defense for employees of nonprofit educational institutions, libraries, and archives (Sec. 504(c)(2))

The copyright statute does not empower copyright holders to override the fair use right by overbroad copyright notices or other unilaterally imposed provisions.

Anyhow it is a common misconception that simply making copies  from a book or copying information and republishing it for information is somehow breaking the law as you can see it is not.

Cy

We are the people that your parents warned you about.
 
 
 
 
    UTFSE
(Hive Bee)
07-28-02 21:34
No 338122
      the prevailing copywrite laws are much more ...  Bookmark   

the prevailing copywrite laws are much more recent than 1976 and although you sound very legalistic and the copy key is your friend and allie - what I said was a hands on laymans experience.

are you an attorney? or the like?

you might notice there was no internet in 1976.  copywrite infringement doesn't necessarily involve a direct monetary profiting. one might and does profit from an unfair use. as opposed to the "fair use" of intellectual properties, etc.

anywho your technical correctness notwithstanding I stand on my original post.

OTEECEE & meeeee!!!!
 
 
 
 
    UTFSE
(Hive Bee)
07-28-02 21:57
No 338136
      further copywrite law is intended to protect the ...  Bookmark   

further copywrite law is intended to protect the creator of such from unfair use.
that means from getting ripped off by unpaid distribution on a scale that would unfairly deprive the creator of a monetary return on his efforts. try to tell me that this isn't the crux of internet publishing.

fella I ain't no lawyer but common sense hasn't taken a vacation either.

but then again there is the issue of interpretation of the word and concept "fair". yours may differ from mine. so be it.

OTEECEE & meeeee!!!!
 
 
 
 
    Polverone
(Stranger)
07-29-02 06:55
No 338362
      Copyright is still a problem.  Bookmark   

I'm not going to kid myself. What I did was reproduce, wholesale, a copyrighted work that I did not have permission to reproduce. Morally, I have absolutely no qualms with this. The author has been dead for decades. This particular edition isn't going to be republished. I gave full credit to the original author.

Legally, that's no excuse for me, as I am a U.S. citizen and subject to its laws no matter what I might think of them. That's why I put the book up only for a limited amount of time. Prior to 1997, it was not criminal in the U.S. to redistribute copyrighted materials if you were not charging for them, although you could still be subject to civil penalties. 1997's "No Electronic Theft" Act changed that, making it criminal to violate copyrights whether or not you were profiting.

I am very happy that Vogel's wonderful text has been further compressed and made available on Rhodium's site, but I hope it doesn't threaten his net presence. I'm sure there are a good number of people who would like to see ../rhodium shut down on any pretext.

Oh, and I thank all the bees who have been burnishing my ego. It is wonderful to know that the fruits of my labor have helped so many others in addition to myself. Consider it my repayment to a wonderful community of chemists that has provided many hours of entertainment and enlightenment.

19th century digital boy
 
 
 
 
    UTFSE
(Hive Bee)
08-05-02 23:23
No 341808
      no problem - my point revolved around moral ...  Bookmark   

no problem - my point revolved around moral perception which you Polverone have dead on the money. but that legal horseshit of fairuse verbage is just some legalistic crap about ripping off someone and still feeling all is right with world.

if one is involved in marginal or worse abject criminal activity (way overstated) then one should be honest about it (to ones own self) and not screw his/her perspective into believing that lawyers are human beings. lawyers write the laws. (i should stop here)

then as a totally monopolistic industry they must hired to interpret same. fuck the lawyers who prey on the hoards made subserviant through their own avarice and deceit. write the laws so any rational  man or woman can understand them and stand in court and speak in their own behalf without having to tribute to their (lawyers) unholy threats of deprivation of life, liberty and some vestige of a free interprise system of elected, represenatative government.

OTEECEE & meeeee!!!!
 
 
 
 
    jimwig
(Stranger)
08-21-02 21:42
No 347426
      I feel called to respond to the part of the post ...  Bookmark   

I feel called to respond to the part of the post that "said the U.S. Congress periodically extends copyrights whenever it looks like Mickey Mouse might enter the public domain. Copyright now extends to 75 years after the death of the author."

First the "author" is the creator of the work which is usually an indiviuall not a huge faceless corporation as portrayed - although these corps are the funding source for many many indiviuals and families on this planet.

The law was expanded across the board. THat is it now covers all originiators of art or other original creative work. Automatically, no paper works. BEing one who derives part of his very existence from creation thus partially described I like it. Perhaps if Polydor REcords one day rips your asshole shitless by violating your copywrite you might come to appreciate it also.

The copywright laws by and large protect those who cannot afford to protective themselves. Any aregument?

True the larger companies fall under its protection also but I wouldn't give up the current wording for anything. (except maybe a time machine)

So take what sounds to me a load of socialist bullshit and chuck it down the sewer. And when you consider the laws think also about how it applies and benefits common people and not just your aggenda ridden point of view.
 
 
 
 
    yellium
(Hive Addict)
08-21-02 21:53
No 347428
      > And when you consider the laws think also ...  Bookmark   

> [..] And when you consider the laws think also about how it
>applies and benefits common people [...]

Don't feed the troll. Smash his throat in instead.    
 
 
 
 
    Polverone
(Stranger)
08-24-02 07:52
No 348400
      Am I feeding a troll?  Bookmark   

I don't know. I do feel bad that this has drifted so far away from "Chemistry Discourse." I don't begrudge you your ability to profit from creative works that you have produced. But in the case of the 3rd edition of Vogel's organic chemistry book, Citizen Kane, "Mack the Knife," and a million other copyrighted works, the original creators are dead. They're not deriving any benefit from increased terms of copyright. Sure, their heirs may benefit, but I don't think people should just mooch off of work done by grandpa 60 years ago. I may be in the minority here; after all, the US Congress doesn't share my views.

I would consider a reasonable term of copyright for works by an individual creator to be 30 years or until the creator dies plus 10 years, whichever is longer. Any heirs/assignees of the creator would have plenty of time to make the transition to productive careers of their own without undue hardship. Any middlemen (record companies, publishers, and the like) would also have ample time to recoup their costs.

For works not produced/owned by an individual, I'd say that a flat 50 years, no renewal, is a reasonable term of copyright. Copyright is an incentive to produce creative works, not an inalienable right up there with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The deal is that the government enforces a monopoly on the reproduction of your works for a limited time and in return you (the creator) make stuff that you wouldn't bother making without that time-limited monopoly. If the creator's monopoly is never protected, people have less incentive to create and cultural richness suffers. If the creator's monopoly is protected too long (say, long after their death), works don't diffuse into the common cultural storehouse called the public domain and cultural richness suffers. The government shouldn't serve as guarantor of monopolies on the reproduction of copyrighted works unless it serves the public interest and not just a tiny minority.

19th century digital boy
 
 
 
 
    foxy2
(Distinctive Doe)
08-24-02 12:46
No 348475
      Yes  Bookmark   

If the creator's monopoly is protected too long (say, long after their death), works don't diffuse into the common cultural storehouse called the public domain and cultural richness suffers.

I agree!
Now with the internet its a whole new world.  Haveing this kind of info available online is powerful, it should bee available.

Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety
 
 
 
 
    protem
(Stranger)
08-24-02 17:51
No 348548
      the open society and copyright  Bookmark   

This reminds me of LINUX

Firstly - thank you all within this community for the interesting hours or reading and thinking that your discourse has brought into my life. I am grateful for it.

I do not have much to say chemically at this stage - perhaps later if I eventually get to understand what it is that I am thinking.

However - I feel compelled to contibute to this discussion of freedom, rights and intellectual property = which is current and has been continuing for some time. I feel that the issues of copyright law and the law of the invisible individual are interestingly cast into a dimensional twist here. Issues of reformation and progress through clear headed thinking arise. I feel that the issue of right and wrong about drugs, and the issues of human freedom - the rights of the individual within a culture where your freedoms stop where your neighbour's begin - and (sorry to be long winded) the economics of the greater picture that we create merely be being part of it all is a great opener. No drugs involved! We really have to think clearly about where we are going - what kind of a world we want to intend for tomorrow. Do you intend a world in which there are monopolistic entities that dictate your lifestyle and behaviour? It may be a good world in which there is no polution and no crime. However - what will your personal state of mind be? Numb?

I personally and grateful to be able to read Vogel's third edition. It is a fantastic book!  I think everyone should read it.  I bought the fifth edition in hard cash - and consider the third edition to be a blessed exercise in recent scientific pratical history. I deeply applaud the courage of the vector who made this possible - and cannot think for a moment that what this person did is bad. Maybe it is not legal... Oh dear. Now what? How great is courage - notably in our civilisation where none shall do no wrong.

Well, now er, we look at the context of it all and think about it. I have thought hard and long about saying anything about anything on an internet discussion forum because it has always turned into flames and rhetoric and something nasty that I would really not be part of. But this issue - especially seeing as the parallels with the computer industry and issues of freedom there are too hard to get over ones social conscience - make me do this post.

I hope that the next one will be a simply wonderful piece of chemistry whereby mothballs are transformed magically into the deepest velvet night. ... howevelvet

What follows is a summary of thoughts I have been having about this issue for weeks now. Sorry for the long post, Editor - feel free to edit - but this is the important bit.  The aforegoing was just gentle introduction...  Thanks again for your patient passion about chemistry and life.

Copyright extension challenge by Free Software Foundation. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/eldred-amicus.html

Note that the Free Software Foundation is challenging the constitutionality of implicitly interminable extension of copyright as a flawed concept. This is of interest mainly to the open source community – especially the linux folk – but it pertains to the current argument. The petition hinges on the basic and fundamental departure point of freedom of information exchange in a technological society.

There are other signs that copyright cannot be applied in a completely general way. Patent rights of essential curative drugs in times of epidemic for example. Anthrax emergencies and AIDS being notable in our recent history.

Also pertinent is the race for possession of the human genome. There are private companies holding patents on human genes. Is this copyrightable?

So – where does copyright fit into society? How does possession of information compare to possession of goods or property? In the case of property Zimbabwe is breaking rules by the clump these days.

Can copyright ever be an issue of automatic dispensation or does each claim to copyright have to be considered on its own merits?

Anyway – this is a deeply fascinating current issue in practical philosophy. As far a Vogel’s third edition goes – what difference does it make to the estate that Vogel is public domain ahead of time for a book that is in any case out of print and will not be reprinted? Chemistry hobbyists of all flavors would benefit far more – and some of these people are teachers who would add value to their work by having access to this great work of scientific literature. Not to mention those who would merely like to read the great work for its intrinsic beauty.

Too much proprietary knowledge leads to monopolies, for example Microsoft Corp. domination of the computer software industry. In science hogging essential experimental results can foretell disaster as emergency groups are blocked from accessing information that could shorten their search for important solutions to problems menacing the globe. Sometimes breaking or rather circumventing wrong or outdated laws is necessary – certainly it is one of the signs of a free and democratic society.

I don’t think this is fanciful – society has changed a lot since Jefferson’s casting of copyright. Copyright will evolve. Whether eternal copyright in perpetuity in the guise of fractional modification is an advance is a question that is currently being asked.
 
 
 
 
    yellium
(Hive Addict)
08-24-02 19:05
No 348564
      My opinion might be a bit too cynical, but alas.  Bookmark   

My opinion might be a bit too cynical, but alas. IMO, the whole discussion is about `ownership', and how far you can define ownership. And most of all: how can ownership be made profitable?

The open-source movement states that ideas are free, and therefore can not and should not be sold for money. Software is basically `ideas written down'. So software should be free too. And if you take things a bit further, music or any form of creative expression should be free too.

You could take things even more further: any mental state should be free. Which means that for example, drugs (in the general form) should be free too, apart from production costs (eat that, mr SaintCyrill!).

Education ditto:if you go for a free society, it is insane that you have to invest big $$ for a title, or some knowledge. Sure, you should pay for your teachers for their teaching, but not for their knowledge.
In this respect, the US might be not so free as they think they are.

You can imagine that the ideas of picture is not quite like how big corporations like to see it. You can't make a decent profit when everything is free. In the ideal world according to big corporations, you don't own anything. You lease everything. And everything you do `own' will be made obsolete as soon as possible, requiring you to `upgrade', or `take additional courses'.

A side effect is that big corporations do not like lone wolfs, or `einzelganger'. If you don't have the same interests as the `common people', it becomes to expensive to produce interesting stuff for you. Yeah, big corporations say that `due to developments in information technology, things can be tailor-made', but there's a very limited choice. Basically, it's the choice between a blue or a red car. Wow. That's choice. And is that freedom?

Of course, if you're a `common man', nothing of this actually matters.
 
 
 
 
    hypo
(Official Hive Approximator)
08-25-02 05:51
No 348721
      open source  Bookmark   


> The open-source movement states that ideas are free, and therefore
> can not and should not be sold for money.

this is wrong! the open source movement definitely says that your work
can and shall be sold for money.

what they say is that ideas are free and that the best thing you can
do with your hard work is to place it under the GPL, because this will
mean that everybody profits from your code and that other people can
and probably will contribute to your code and you and everybody will profit
this way.

they totally clearly say that everybody is owner of the code he writes
and that the author can decide what shall happen with his code.

the founder of the FSF, stallman, has written millions of lines of code
and he defines to the point what can and what cannot be done with his code.
further he offers us his (imho perfect!) licence so we can put code under
this licence too.

nowhere does he say that commercial software is free to copy!

couch terrorist
 
 
 
 
    yellium
(Hive Addict)
08-25-02 20:04
No 348877
      >> The open-source movement states that ...  Bookmark   




>> The open-source movement states that ideas are free, and therefore
>> can not and should not be sold for money.

> this is wrong! the open source movement definitely says that your work
> can and shall be sold for money.

Woops, serious oversight from my side. You're completely right; they even state that they would _like_ it if you distributed free software for money; as long as you provide the source with it.

(dammit, now I would like to know who came up with the `information should be free' idea)
 
 
 
 
    hypo
(Official Hive Approximator)
08-26-02 11:54
No 349136
      free as in...  Bookmark   

> as long as you provide the source with it.

well, kindof. as long as you make the source easily available.
and others can distribute your source too. so as you see,
the money transfer is very much based on voluntariness.

money will for example be paid for the implementation
of a certain feature.

maybe you know the free techno movement, where people
organise techno parties, were you can, but don't have to,
pay entrance. it's a similar principle.

> (dammit, now I would like to know who came up with the
> `information should be free' idea)

there's that famous slogan of the open source movement:
"free as in speech not as in beer". (not that i'm not a
big fan of free beer!!)

-----

back to the topic:

imho this is a case of "fair use". the software analogue would be
abandonware. old software, that is not available for sale
for a long time and nobody cares if you copy it or not.


couch terrorist
 
 
 
 
    Rhodium
(Chief Bee)
09-02-02 10:19
No 351712
      Whew, are we off topic or what?  Bookmark   

I will gladly publish things that are out of print on my page, as the author cannot lose anything by me making something that isn't even sold anymore publicly available.