2009/1/16 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
That doesn't make sense to me.
How do you limit PD items?
How can I, direct the land office in my local county to *stop* giving copies
to people who walk in?
I can't.
You seem to assume that all PD items are in public collections.
If something is PD, then there is *some* where you can
go or write or call
to get a copy.
You are confusing the *creation* of an image, with the *creation* of the
original document.
What we're discussing here is limiting the use of your creation, not the
original creation.
Unless you're actually proposing that PD-item scanners are actually buying
originals and then destroying all copies of them in the world except their
own. I really doubt that is occuring.
Will
Doesn't need to happen. In many cases there are only a very small
number of copies or even just one. Most collectors are not going to
allow people nears there stuff with scanners unless they are paid for
access.
But even public collections have this problem. I doubt you would be
able to get a scanner into the imperial war museum collection or the
British library collection. Under your system the only way to get a
copy of those things not protected by rather limiting conditions. For
example he's the conditions for the imperial war museam:
http://collections.iwm.org.uk/upload/pdf/newlegal02a.pdf
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geni