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

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<<In a message dated 1/16/2009 11:33:15 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
carcharothwp at googlemail.com writes:

If you  buy an expensive first edition public domain book (hundreds of
years old  and thousands of US dollars), what do you say to someone who
turns up on  your doorstep saying that the book is part of the
collective heritage of  humankind, and that they have a right to look
at it and scan it, and that  you have no right to keep the item locked
up in a display cabinet for only  you to look at?>>
 
Your particular item is not PD.  It's the general item, the Socratian  item, 
that is PD.
Your specific item is not. No one can force you to let them view your  item.
If to take an extreme vase, the only versions of the item are privately  
held, and no one has ever photographed it, or if they have all the photographs  
are unpublished etc etc, then right, you can't get the item.
 
Will
 
 
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