[B-Greek] Question about Abbott-Smith

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jan 31 16:46:32 EST 2008


Ulrik's original message was lost because it was formatted in MIME  
HTML -- which our list software filters out. This is what it was  
intended to be. (CWC)

> From: Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen <ulrikp at hum.aau.dk>
> Date: January 31, 2008 4:20:23 PM EST
> To: James Spinti <JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com>
> Cc: B-greek list <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Question about Abbott-Smith
>
>
> James,
>
> That is the third edition you are talking about.  The first edition  
> was published in 1922, in North America by Charles Scribner's Sons,  
> and in Europe by T. & T. Clark.  That means, the first edition is  
> out of copyright in the USA (because it was published in the USA  
> before 1923), but in Europe, it may or may not be out of copyright,  
> depending on when Dr. Abbott-Smith died.  Right now, European  
> copyright laws dictate that the expiry date on copyright for  
> literary works (of which the Abbott-Smith lexicon is a specimen) is  
> year of author's death, plus 70 years.  So we have a situation  
> whereby the first edition is in the Public Domain in the USA, but is  
> probably still copyrighted in Europe.
>
> Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen
>
>
>
> James Spinti wrote:
>>
>> I do know that it is still under copyright to Continuum/T&T Clark.  
>> The original date was 1932, renewed most recently in 1999, so that  
>> isn't going to happen. James ________________________________ James  
>> Spinti Marketing Director, Book Sales Division Eisenbrauns, Good  
>> books for more than 30 years Specializing in Ancient Near Eastern  
>> and Biblical Studies jspinti at eisenbrauns dot com Web: http://www.eisenbrauns.com 
>>  Phone: 574-269-2011 ext 226 Fax: 574-269-6788
>>> -----Original Message----- From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org  
>>> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan  
>>> Robie Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:49 PM To: Ulrik Sandborg- 
>>> Petersen Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [B-Greek]  
>>> Question about Abbott-Smith If you are asking this because you'd  
>>> like to get an open source version of Abbot-Smith up on the Web,  
>>> I'm very interested in seeing that happen too. Jonathan Ulrik  
>>> Sandborg-Petersen wrote:
>>>> List, Does anyone know for sure when George Abbott-Smith, the
>>> author of the
>>>> "Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament", died? Thanks. Ulrik  
>>>> Sandborg-Petersen http://morphgnt.org -- Collaboration with James  
>>>> Tauber on
>>> Greek projects
>>>> http://www.greekparadigms.org -- Greek & Hebrew quizzes
>>



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