[WikiEN-l] Subscription idea

[Ian Woollard]

2008/12/26  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> IF I take a photograph, or even "digitize" (scan) a print document, I own
> the copyright to what *I* have done.

Careful here. I'm pretty sure that to successfully assert copyright,
you need to have contributed some reasonable degree of *originality*;
and then at *best* you have copyright over the additional, original
elements that were not in the original work.

If you take a carefully framed and lit photograph, then those aspects
are copyrightable. If somebody chopped off everything except the
document and copied that, you probably wouldn't have a leg to stand on
in most jurisdictions.

> Will Johnson

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-Ian Woollard

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