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

[Matthew Brown]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:20 AM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> If we adhere to the idea that any scan of a PD item is a voluntary act to
> freely distribute such scan to the world for any purpose than the end result is
> that the massive scanners will simply stop scanning and we won't have
> anything  free, limited, for pay, or what.

I think you've failed to demonstrate that our taking a copy of things
we're legally allowed to take a copy of is actually harming any of
these organizations, quite apart from any argument about whether we
should actually care.

-Matt