[Wikipedia-l] 1911 encyclopedia

[Ian]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Hannes Hirzel hirzel at spw.unizh.ch XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:
> 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

Then how come in Project Gutenberg, as I understand it, you have to use an
actual old copy of the book? If you want to digitize Mark Twain, you can't
pick up a copy at Wal-Mart, you have to go to the used book store. 

Perhaps I'm mistaken.

Ian Monroe
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~eean/