On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 WJhonson(a)aol.com wrote:
All this talk about copyright on public domain
"Text" is moot.
You cannot copyright something already in the public domain.
You can say you are, but your declaration has no power.
There are plenty of things which people can't just force you to do, but
which you can agree to do as part of a contract. If access depends on a
license agreement to treat PD material as copyrighted, then it does.