[WikiEN-l] Interesting article on restored copyrights in US works between...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/13/2009 2:03:24 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
saintonge at telus.net writes:

Legally,  you are right.  That doesn't stop groups like Corbis from doing  
it.  It's very easy to add a copyright notice to anything, with or  
without justification. Who is going to be willing to challenge them?   >>



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We're speaking past each other.
I am not suggesting that a person, scanning some image, cannot add a  
copyright disclaimer to it.
 
What I'm suggesting is that *this action* does not make a public domain  work 
into a private copyrighted work.  What it does, what they are  suggesting it 
does at any rate, is make THEIR OWN WORK into a private  copyrighted work.
 
It does nothing at all to the original public domain piece, and no one, as  
far as I know, even the defendents/plaintiffs have suggested that it alters 
that  the piece is still public domain.  What they suggested is that *their own  
image* of that piece *solely* is a copyrighted piece.  Not the  original.
 
Hope that's more clear.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
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