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Godey's Volume 30 images
[edit]I uploaded the originals as untouched as I could make them. Category:Godey's Lady's Book/Volume 30
I think they are from your source but who knows. For many reasons two different scan sources is nice.
Even without watermarks, Hathi scans are crappy. But better than Google books which I have been unable to shred logically.
I was thinking we should adopt a GNU FDL for the magazines here. I do ads in issues or advertisements in numbers. Without the GNU FDL I am vulnerable in a silly way which I would rather see away from my work.
I would like to be able to recreate magazine ads here, and protect my work as preservation side. At least for these originals. My own work, almost always jpeg has been altered, but it should be just my work there. Sourcery and Shopping both should have a "preserve this" attached to the images and the shared words.
The software I use can make really nice reproductions of patents as well as the various layer magicks, so mine has to stay how I found it.
Do you have any ideas about this?
I saw a GIF contest winner. It was a page from a book and one of the illustrations, A crab, got up and moved its claws some. The beauty of that image haunts me at wiki source and here.
Recap: An additional license? Reasons for this.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 16:48, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
- Looking at my notes, I created File:Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book (volume 30, January–June 1845).djvu using this HathiTrust scan (and yep, I removed the watermarks as it's public domain), but there were a few missing pages in the HathiTrust scan, which I added in from greyscale Internet Archive microfilm scans (pp. 49–50 and 278–279), then uploaded this scan to IA (here) to get a good OCR layer (I've never been able to get good results running Tesseract on my computer).
- Are the individual page scans you've uploaded only the pages with details (images, fancy drop caps, music scores, etc.) and so missing out all of the pages that just have text? I think I've seen categories like this on Commons before, and have never been sure what their purpose is: can I ask why? Surely you would crop any of the images/drop caps, etc. rather than using the entire page scan? Is it to make life easier for future editors to do this?
- I'd be happy for anything to be licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License, but again I may have to ask your help to understand this! Surely all of these works are public domain now, and so do not need any additional licenses (I would have thought adding additional licenses would just confuse the situation for future readers/editors here on Commons, as we as uploaders have no copyrights on any of these images that we can license out)?
- I completely agree about keeping as many of the original adverts, etc. in the scans as possible: we're often at the mercy of whoever the bookbinder was for each of the volumes, as they often removed these when they turned them from individual magazine issues into volumes. I just came across the case of Ainsworth’s Magazine, where nearly all copies of these kept in libraries have had not only the adverts removed, but also all of the original issues' individual title pages and contents listings (maybe the bookbinders' instructions for each volume said to do this?), which has caused a complete nightmare, as it's very difficult now to work out where each issue starts and ends within each volume (and so work out which month each article was published, etc.)! Luckily a few volumes found in a few libraries do have these original pages, so in cases like this trying to find scans of copies that have all of the original pages should definitely be the first step! This is a bit of a tangential rant though!
- But I think I might be missing the point here: are you suggesting trying to recreate the advert pages from scratch, and then license these under the GNU FDL? If so, what is the source you'd be using to create the adverts from? Or have you found that the scan is missing advert pages, and you have found scans of these adverts, and want to add them to this file?
- Would be fun to create animated versions of some of the illustrations, but I think Wikisource would be pretty strict about this stuff! (I personally think it would be great to let users create this sort of enhanced versions of entire books/journals within their own userpages, but that's different discussion altogether!). ‑‑YodinT 08:51, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
I see that you added this file some years ago. According to https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/cinfo/fantastic1952, copyright on "The Screaming People", by Robert Bloch was renewed so I don't think those pages can be hosted on Commons. -- Beardo (talk) 03:35, 3 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads up @Beardo. I see the discussions on this you've also made at Index talk:Fantastic Volume 08 Number 01.djvu and Wikisource:Copyright discussions § Pages from Fantastic Volume 08 Number 01 on enws, and will reply at the copyright discussion to keep the conversation in one place. ‑‑YodinT 07:55, 3 July 2025 (UTC)