[Wikipedia-l] Dream a little...

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Roger Luethi wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:24:14 +0930, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
>>> I'd rather make a $100 million bonfire than paying those who hold for
>>> ransom what is legally in the public domain already.
>> ... or at least that's our position and we're sticking to it; theirs is
>> that they're the copyright holders, and, well, they're sticking to it too.
> 
> I don't think that is their official position, because the idea that works
> written hundreds of years ago are still under copyright is entirely and
> obviously without merit (not counting special cases like Crown copyright).
> 

For the case where they've digitized the materials, it is.

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