Dear Dominik,

This raises a fundamental question: I have been under the impression that while one can claim copyright (what you note in your mail with (C) ) over work like critical notes, annotations, translation etc, one *cannot* claim copyright over editions of classical texts. (I'm not debating whether this is reasonable or not and the effort and expertise it takes to create an edition, just reporting my understanding of the law). Therefore, according to my understanding, if I take your edition of a text, and type it up *without any notes etc* i can publish it.

I suppose --maybe I am just ignorant here--that this has never been litigated because there is no money in it for anyone. After all, who would go to court to prevent me from copying a critical edition of the Ṛkpratiśākhya?

I realize I haven't framed this as a question, but what is your take?

Jonathan

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:14 AM Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 07:40, Martin Gluckman via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Two further submissions received to add to the list (thank you to all who have responded):

1.Mahabharata for its general and omnipresent influence on all kinds of cultural and literary creativity.

Note that the Mahābhārata text of the critical Pune edition is (C) BORI and is not meant to be distributed or hosted on other websites. It is made exclusively available from John Smith's Bombay website. As the accompanying documentation says,
The electronic text of the Mahabharata is Copyright (C) The Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute (BORI), Pune. This authorised and regularly
updated text is available only via the web page
http://bombay.indology.info/mahabharata/statement.html. Please do not provide
copies of the text to others.
In other words, help yourself, but only from that Bombay website.

This is why the Puna Mbh has never been offered through SARIT.  The text at SARIT is the 1906-1910 edition from Nirnayasagara Press, 
Bombay, "A New Edition Mainly Based on the South Indian Texts, with Footnotes and Readings."
I'm fully aware that the Pune Mbh has long ago escaped into the wild and is offered everywhere.  I think that's a wonderful thing for 
scholarship (though bad for version control).  But it does not reflect the wishes of BORI.  I'm just sayin'
Best,
Dominik
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