[Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

[Parker Higgins]

Except google isn't asserting any kind of copyright control over these
books, they're just not making it convenient to download them in your
preferred format.  Maybe not The Right Thing, but not as boneheaded as suing
a party who reprints public domain material, as was the case in Feist v.
Rural (the supreme court case you mention.)

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On Jun 20, 2009 3:23 PM, "Geoffrey Plourde" <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:

For some reason, I am reminded of a Supreme Court case about the information
in telephone directories. Maybe because of the insanity of trying to put
public domain material under copyright.




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From: Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>
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That is against the law. It violates Google's ToS. I'm mostly complaining
that Google is being Ver...