At 07:39 PM 3/15/02 +0100, you wrote:
Probably, they will claim some kind of copyrights over the digitalisation of the 1911 Encyclopedia.
Well, how could they tell where we got it? We could have typed the stuff in by hand, after all...
More seriously: even if the quality of the scanned text will be improved,
I do hope that nobody will whip together a script to suck the 1911 contents into Wikipedia wholesale.
Indeed. I had to google to update the one on the Pribilof islands--the 1911 version ended with the months during which seal hunting "is" legal, meaning when it was legal in 1911. This has no connection to current US law.
I assume there will be similar changes in many geographical entries.