The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) full access

[lumpynose]

Originally Posted by ranchero

Why would anyone want the OED?

If someone were to give me the current version, sure, I'd take it. But I can't see spending my money for it.

[curtw]

The 1888 edition (15,000 pages, 6 GB) is presumably PD world-wide, and is posted to archive.org. Moderators, please delete if this is inappropriate.

https://archive.org/details/oed11_201407

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by curtw

The 1888 edition (15,000 pages, 6 GB) is presumably PD world-wide, and is posted to archive.org. Moderators, please delete if this is inappropriate.

https://archive.org/details/oed11_201407

Volume 10 with the letter Z wasn't published until the year 1928 so "1888 edition" is nonsense and the complete text may not be PD in the US.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Volume 10 with the letter Z wasn't published until the year 1928 so "1888 edition" is nonsense and the complete text may not be PD in the US.

Whether or not a document produced in a foreign country is P.D. in another country depends upon what the laws of the foreign country are where it was copyrighted, doesn't it?

So, if the "Z" volume wasn't published until 1928, causing the whole set to gain a 1928 copyright date (if I understand your point), it seems to me that that would only matter if works copyrighted in England(?) in 1928 were still in copyright. I don't know if they are or are not.

That prompts a question about books and other published works, in the U.S. in particular, that have a second, or later, revised edition, a new foreword, a different cover (even if a digital product), and/or an additional chapter or two, etc. Will it gain a new, later copyright date for the original published work, or for only the new material?

Oh, I so wish that I were a copyright lawyer. Not!

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Whether or not a document produced in a foreign country is P.D. in another country depends upon what the laws of the foreign country are where it was copyrighted, doesn't it?

So, if the "Z" volume wasn't published until 1928, causing the whole set to gain a 1928 copyright date (if I understand your point), it seems to me that that would only matter if works copyrighted in England(?) in 1928 were still in copyright. I don't know if they are or are not.

That prompts a question about books and other published works, in the U.S. in particular, that have a second, or later, revised edition, a new foreword, a different cover (even if a digital product), and/or an additional chapter or two, etc. Will it gain a new, later copyright date for the original published work, or for only the new material?

Oh, I so wish that I were a copyright lawyer. Not!

Hathi trust thinks it's still in copyright
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009779263

And you need to be a trademark lawyer too.

Reprints of an annual volume of Cricket Statistics was hindered because the title 'Wisden' was trademarked.
https://trademarks.justia.com/855/07...-85507373.html

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Hathi trust thinks it's still in copyright
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009779263

And you need to be a trademark lawyer too.

Reprints of an annual volume of Cricket Statistics was hindered because the title 'Wisden' was trademarked.
https://trademarks.justia.com/855/07...-85507373.html

P1--Interesting. I'd be "afraid" to speculate why.

P2--Pshht! A piece of cake. I can take care of that in night classes while I'm working toward getting the mortar board (the "cap" in "cap and gown"--worn during the graduation ceremony) for my doctor of copyright law degree.

P3--I doubt that any of the lawmakers intended to put that loophole in, when they wrote the copyright laws. It's bound to be difficult for lawmakers to cover every conceivable abuse of a law, when they make one.

[GtrsRGr8]

Regarding the OED . . . .

It's probably going on the burn pile in my back yard at the edge of the woods back there, tomorrow.

I genuinely hate to dispose of books, but this one is an albatross around my neck. It's too old, it takes up too much shelf space, and the local library or charities probably don't want it (I might call the library first, just to be sure).

Something that you might find interesting--it is very difficult to burn a book using ordinary means. The cover, and the first few and last few pages will probably burn up easily, but the inside will still be in great shape. With the monstrous size that the two volumes are, I'll probably still have them on the burn pile when they come to take me away . . . .