[Foundation-l] promotion of free licenses

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 14:30:21 UTC 2006


On 22/11/06, David Monniaux <David.Monniaux at free.fr> wrote:

> Another important issue is that this whole debate is not
> France-centered. "Copyright" as practiced in the US is largely an
> American conception (though British law may be somewhat similar to some
> extent, even though apparently the British recognize scanning images as
> creating rights?).

Idle sidenote time...

Sort of maybe it's not determined ask again get a different answer.

Routine photocopying is almost certainly not. Most photography almost
always is. Where you draw the line between them is ill-understood, but
some scans are - to my eyes - almost guaranteed to be copyrightable
under this concept.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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