The Panchatantra
Robin Whittleton <[email protected]> Mon, 21 May 2018 19:18:44 +0200
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--===============5521634558922982401== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-DA72A19E-50D9-4E89-915C-B830260648ED Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Apple-Mail-DA72A19E-50D9-4E89-915C-B830260648ED Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The Panchatantra is (to quote Wikipedia) "an ancient Indian work of politica= l philosophy, in the form of a collection of interrelated animal fables=E2=80= =9D. There=E2=80=99s nothing on Gutenberg but I did find this good quality t= ranscription on Wikisource: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Panchatantr= a_(Purnabhadra%27s_Recension_of_1199_CE) (see also archive.org scans: https:= //archive.org/details/Panchatantra_Arthur_W_Ryder ). While this translation w= as published in the US in 1925 the wikisource link claims no copyright was r= enewed on the text. Sure enough, a quick search on the Stanford copyright re= newal database doesn=E2=80=99t throw anything up. Is this something Gutenberg would consider adding? If I wanted to verify lap= se of copyright is there a more formal process I could undertake? Thanks! -Robin --Apple-Mail-DA72A19E-50D9-4E89-915C-B830260648ED Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3D= utf-8"></head><body dir=3D"auto"><div><span style=3D"background-color: rgba(= 255, 255, 255, 0);">The Panchatantra is (to quote Wikipedia) "an ancient&nbs= p;Indian work of political philosophy, in the form of a collection= of interrelated animal fables=E2=80=9D. There=E2=80=99s <a h= ref=3D"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=3Dpanchatantra" class=3D= "">nothing on Gutenberg</a> but I did find this good quality transcript= ion on Wikisource: <a href=3D"https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Panc= hatantra_(Purnabhadra's_Recension_of_1199_CE)" class=3D"">https://en.m.wikis= ource.org/wiki/The_Panchatantra_(Purnabhadra%27s_Recension_of_1199_CE)</a>&n= bsp;(see also <a href=3D"http://archive.org/" class=3D"">archive.org</a= > scans: <a href=3D"https://archive.org/details/Panchatantra_Arthu= r_W_Ryder" class=3D"">https://archive.org/details/Panchatantra_Arthur_W_Ryde= r</a> ). While this translation was published in the US in 1925 the wik= isource link claims no copyright was renewed on the text. Sure enough, a qui= ck search on the Stanford copyright renewal database doesn=E2=80=99t throw a= nything up.</span></div><div><span style=3D"background-color: rgba(255, 255,= 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style=3D"background-color: rgba(255, 2= 55, 255, 0);">Is this something Gutenberg would consider adding? If I wanted= to verify lapse of copyright is there a more formal process I could underta= ke?</span></div><div><span style=3D"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0)= ;"><br></span></div><div><span style=3D"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255= , 0);">Thanks!</span></div><div><span style=3D"background-color: rgba(255, 2= 55, 255, 0);">-Robin</span></div><div></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-DA72A19E-50D9-4E89-915C-B830260648ED-- --===============5521634558922982401== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KZ3V0dm9sLWQg bWFpbGluZyBsaXN0Cmd1dHZvbC1kQGxpc3RzLnBnbGFmLm9yZwpodHRwOi8vbGlzdHMucGdsYWYu b3JnL21haWxtYW4vbGlzdGluZm8vZ3V0dm9sLWQK --===============5521634558922982401==--