On 27/09/06, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
The intellectual property comes with the work of arrangement, cataloging and transferring to a new medium. As far as I know, this is the case (or claimed case, anyway) with many digital archives of old material in the U.S.
Turns out it isn't, largely; or it'd be *quite* a stretch to claim someone couldn't reproduce a scan because you'd arranged and catalogued it along with the slavish copying that explicitly doesn't create a new copyright. In any case, Commons would promptly reorganise it.
- d.