At 12:49 PM 7/20/06 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: >Under US copyright law, the only thing Saur can copyright about such a >collection of PD material is the collection itself--that is, the >selection and ordering of the contents.
Saur can copyright the images themselves -- not their content, which can be copied out by hand or transcribed by an OCR program. As one who sells photos of public domain objects to cable producers and magazines (CNN, BBC, Travel, Discovery, National Geographic and even Weekly World News), I know full well how carefully they approach the distinction. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
