On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Hannes Hirzel hirzel@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/