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With a manuscript that old, you'd need authorisation to look at it so you can see all the worm holes and artifacts.
by jwdunne 10y ago
With a manuscript that old, you'd need authorisation to look at it so you can see all the worm holes and artifacts.
- jonathankoren 10y agoAuthorization to maintain the integrity of the artifact yes. Authorization to publish a copy of it? No. High resolution PDFs are freely available[0] and there already exists a crappy bound edition of these PDFs[1]. (Do not buy the linked to book. It's very subpar. Multipage foldouts are shrunk-to-fit, and there's no accompany text. It's literally, just the archive.org images printed and bound.) [0] https://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript https://archive.org/details/TheVoynichManuscript [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599865556/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599865556/ref=oh_aui_deta...
- jwdunne 10y agoYeah but my point is that it will be pretty hard to produce a replica where you charge thousands per book with just a high resolution PDF alone. You want to see how the book looks in 3D, in real lighting and at different angles. A PDF cannot convey how that will look. The only way to produce a high quality replica is to look at the real thing and work to match how it really is. They would need authorisation for that access.
- jonathankoren 10y agoYeah but that still doesn't mean that Yale Library authorized the production of the the replica. They authorized access to the original. Nothing more. I can go to any library or museum and once granted access do anything I want with the data I acquire. Now granted, they may be curious about why I wanted access, and maybe I'd even do it under supervision in order to mitigate damage, but the data and the manifestation of that data becomes my own original transformative creative work. The library doesn't own it, or even a part of it, unless a specific agreement was made regarding that.