http://aalt.law.uh.edu/

The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (Robert Palmer, University of Houston Law Center)

A huge project to digitise medieval and early-modern English legal records, and to make the images freely available through the Internet. The records covered are from the period 1272-1650, and include plea rolls (CP 40, KB 27 and E 13), Exchequer memoranda rolls (E 159 and E 368) and other series (C 33, JUST 1 [to 1350], E 124, E 126, REQ 1, DL 5 and CHES 14). Images are already available for the reigns of Edward I, Edward III and Henry VIII-Charles I, and more material is being added at the rate of 400,000 images per year. The site also includes some transcribed examples.

http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/updates/update.shtml

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announces the availability of a newly-digitized collection of Abraham Lincoln books accessible through the Open Content Alliance and displayed on the University Library's own web site, as the first step of a digitization project of Lincoln books from its collection. View the first set of books digitized at: http://varuna.grainger.uiuc.edu/oca/lincoln/

Stained glass has been the Cinderella of the medieval arts, largely because the material is so little known. Yet during the Middle Ages it was a highly prestigious vehicle for a wide variety of images, brightly coloured and brilliantly lit, as the famous surviving examples in York Minster, Canterbury Cathedral or King’s College Chapel in Cambridge still show today.

Following a major digitisation project many of the surviving examples of medieval stained glass in Great Britain are now available to view online. Over 15,000 digitised photographs from the archive of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) have been added to the AHDS Visual Arts image catalogue at: http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk/

Source: http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/

Due technical reasons I cannot incorporate the chart in this entry as suggested by OpenDOAR nor can I put a link correctly

http://www.opendoar.org/
http://digbig.com/4rqtp

OAI-Metadata should be Open Access (CC-BY)!

On the legal problem see my statement (in German):
http://www.ub.uni-dortmund.de/listen/inetbib/msg29811.html

There is an article in Zvi S Rosen that I thought you might like to read:

Zvi S. Rosen (2006) The Twilight of the Opera Pirates: A Prehistory of the Exclusive Right of Public Performance for Musical Compositions,
http://works.bepress.com/zvi_rosen/1.

I hope you enjoy this article, which may be viewed without charge.

Interesting project: the bepress "Selected Works".

Have you tried Google Books? You can view the pages of armorial reference books by Burke, Papworth, Boutell, Worthy, Crozier, and others online.

Go to Google.com Select "MORE." Click on "Books." Select "Full view Books." Perform searches for "armory, general armory,"heraldry," etc..

best,
Jerry Morris, MOOPL

>Dear Colleagues
>
>Wondered whether any have come across any online resources for UK &
>European
>armorials that they may be able to share with me?
>
>Best wishes
>
>J.A.Eaton

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Gabriel Austin

Jerry,

There are two BILLION+ hits if one enters More on Google.

What now/

Gabriel

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John Beekman

Gabriel,

Don't search "more" on Google - rather, click the link over the search box that says "more," which will open a box from which you can choose "books." Then click the radio button (little circle thing) for "full view books." Then, as Jerry said: "Perform searches for "armory, general armory, heraldry," etc.."

JWB

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/E7-3160.htm

http://www.paperofrecord.com/

The project has the aim to build the largest library of searchable newspapers in the world. It' now FREE. You can search after a short registration (password is mailed) over 21 million images.

Unfortunately there is no browsing option and no cross-newspaper search.

I have searched the "Cambridge Tribune" (Maryland): "We found 37 hits for hitler on 21 pages between 1/1/1937 and 12/31/1942." Either the search is bad or the German politician was not estimated very important in Maryland ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2002303,00.html

Heir of Victor Hugo fails to stop Les Mis II

The case set French copyright laws, which put a literary work in the public domain 70 years after the author's death, against the concept of an author's "moral rights". The latter are considered timeless and passed on to descendants.

I found this at the comments of Lessig's new Orphan Works suggestion
http://lessig.org/blog/archives/003696.shtml