[Wikipedia-l] 1911 encyclopedia
Ian
rsvr4cqdon001 at sneakemail.com
Sat Mar 16 21:43:24 UTC 2002
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/
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