To my mild shock, I have just read a copyright notice at 1911encyclopedia.org: "... The Contents are licensed only for the personal, household, educational use by a single individual. Reproducing Content on another site or redistributing Content is forbidden. Taking Content from this site and editing it and posting it on another site is also forbidden... Full text: http://www.1911ency.org/legal.htm
They can _claim_ anything they like, but they're full of hot air. Scanning is not "creative expression" protected by copyright. The 1911 text is public domain--it belongs as much to you and me as it does to them, regardless of whatever legal-sounding bullshit they care to post. 0