[Wikipedia-l] 1911 encyclopedia

[Hannes Hirzel]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, João Mário Miranda wrote:

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> The 1911encyclopedia.org domain was registered by
> 
> Pagewise, inc
> byron reese
> 815-A Brazos St. #PMB 534
> austin, TX 78701
> US
> Phone: 512-478-4566
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> Email: byron at pagewise.com
> 
> Pagewise.com is a for profit organization:
> 
> http://www.pagewise.com/
> 
> that owns the http://www.WriteForCash.com/ site.
> 
> Probably, they will claim some kind of copyrights over the 
> digitalisation of the 1911 Encyclopedia.
> 
That's not possible from the point of view of the copyright law as
scanning is not a creative expression and the copyright of the original
material has expired. The only thing which is possible is to claim
copyright on additional markup, layout, presentation and additional
graphics.

HJH