[WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/15/2009 6:46:41 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
geniice at gmail.com writes:

Since  under US
law sweat of the brow does not give something copyright protection  if
your scans are publicly available it is rather hard to get people  to
pay anything for them.>>



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You know perfectly well this is a "theory" of the law and the case law is  
not clear.
 
And I hope you realize the chilling effect it gives to state that something  
like Google Books has no protection for their out-of-copyright scans.  That  
Microsoft or whoever, can simply copy all of that material onto their own  
servers and thumb their noses at Google.
 
That is what you're saying.
That theory would effectively end anyone attempting to upload PD anything  of 
significant value.
 
Sure people will upload little dribs and drabs but we'll not be getting  
thousands of pages of census, and hundreds of thousands of pages of documents,  
maps, etc, since anyone like yourself can just copy the entire contents, rehost  
them, and place your own ads on your own server and make money off doing  
virtually nothing.
 
This is what you want  to happen on the internet?
This sounds like a good thing to you?
 
 
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