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

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In a message dated 1/15/2009 9:46:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
geniice at gmail.com writes:

Okey so  you consider copying images different to copying formulas? The
endpoint of  your argument would be that if someone takes a PD image
and converts it  into SVG it is okey to copy it but if they put it in a
raster format it  isn't.>>
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If you take a chemical formula and make your own drug out of it,  fine.
If you walk into a pharmacy and say "Give me your aspirin because the  
formula is in the public domain, the will laugh at you or call the  police."
 
Walking onto a website and saying, well since the *underlying object* that  
you are photographing is itself in the public domain, I think I'll just steal  
your image of it, is the same example as trying to take a drug where the 
formula  itself is public domain.
 
The drug thing is just a bad example.  It is not nearly close enough  to the 
issue.
 
 
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