2009/1/16  <wjhon...@aol.com>:
> It takes me a few dozen hours to scan the pages of a public domain  work.  I
> have a perfect right to expect payment for someone else to use  it.  That
> capitalism.

No. Under capitalism you have the right to expect what someone else is
prepared to pay you. If that is zero then it is zero. Since under US
law sweat of the brow does not give something copyright protection if
your scans are publicly available it is rather hard to get people to
pay anything for them.

-- 
geni

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