théo gigant

Yeah you are right. I just sent an email to the contact adress from the website, to ask for a mirror or a special authorization to use a scraping tool....

Update, I received a response from the webmaster: > Hi Théo, Thank you for your interest in [oldbookillustrations.com](http://oldbookillustrations.com/). We do indeed restrict bulk downloads, simply because we're on fairly cheap...

We have access to: the artist name (of the illustration), the engravers, the book and author (of the book), as well as the source of the illustration, and the Open...

The source reads: The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination...

Last night, I scraped the pages from the website, by following the restrictions agreed upon. This is the resulting dataset, stored on the hub: https://huggingface.co/datasets/gigant/oldbookillustrations_2 Do you think any other...

Update: Here is the dataset on the hub, with a comprehensive dataset card: https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/oldbookillustrations Let me know what you think can be improved.

I agree that it would be nice to make sure the version we share does not have any copyright infringement issue. However, from my understanding, checking if a work is...