Sony Connect Inc.

Sony Connect Inc. appears in the front matter of Aesop’s Fables as a corporate copyright holder and as one of the parties disclaiming responsibility for the document’s contents and electronic transmission. The book provides no evidence that the company participated in the fables’ composition, editing, translation, or historical circulation.

Identification and Publication Context

The volume identifies itself as Aesop’s Fables by Aesop, translated by George Fyler Townsend, and places the electronic edition within Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, with Jim Manis as Faculty Editor. Sony Connect Inc. is named alongside the university and individuals associated with it in the front-matter disclaimer, which states that these parties assume no responsibility for the material or for the file as an electronic transmission.

Copyright and Disclaimer

The copyright notice assigns Sony Connect Inc. a copyright dated 2007 and states that all rights are reserved. It separately records a 1999 copyright for Pennsylvania State University covering the source electronic book file version, and supplies the volume’s ISBN, 978-1-4340-0146-7. These notices distinguish the company’s stated copyright from the university’s copyright in the source electronic file; the front matter does not specify the company’s precise operational role in preparing or distributing the edition.

Scope of the Evidence

The preface recounts a long history of oral transmission, collections, translations, and printing, including the work of Socrates, Demetrius Phalereus, Phaedrus, Maximus Planudes, and Isaac Nicholas Nevelet. It also lists scholarly editions used in preparing the translation and describes the 1844 discovery of a Babrias manuscript on Mount Athos. These historical accounts concern the textual tradition, not Sony Connect Inc.; the company’s documented presence is limited to the electronic edition’s copyright and disclaimer.