Besides, I'm not cut'n'pasting from that site; I'm typing articles in by hand from my personal copy of that 1911 encyclopedia, and I'd like to see them try to prove otherwise.

Of course, anyone who does simply cut'n'paste their scano-riddled crap is making it trivial for them to prove copying....

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-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of lcrocker@nupedia.com Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 01:02 To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] 1911encyclopedia.org copyright nonsense

To my mild shock, I have just read a copyright notice at 1911encyclopedia.org: "... The Contents are licensed only for the personal, household, educational use by a single individual. Reproducing Content on another site or redistributing Content is forbidden. Taking Content from this site and editing it and posting it on another site is also forbidden... Full text: http://www.1911ency.org/legal.htm

They can _claim_ anything they like, but they're full of hot air. Scanning is not "creative expression" protected by copyright. The 1911 text is public domain--it belongs as much to you and me as it does to them, regardless of whatever legal-sounding bullshit they care to post. 0