Roger Luethi wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:24:14 +0930, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
I'd rather make a $100 million bonfire than paying those who hold for ransom what is legally in the public domain already.
... or at least that's our position and we're sticking to it; theirs is that they're the copyright holders, and, well, they're sticking to it too.
I don't think that is their official position, because the idea that works written hundreds of years ago are still under copyright is entirely and obviously without merit (not counting special cases like Crown copyright).
For the case where they've digitized the materials, it is.