In a message dated 1/13/2009 2:03:24 PM Pacific Standard Time, saintonge@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? >>
---------- 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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