It's a shame these, and other elderly scholarly works, can't just be
released for the greater good, without all this red tape tying them
down. I wonder how much better the world would advance if we could all
go back to the days when we shared knowledge and skills freely between
engineers before all the lawyers became involved. Does anyone else
remember the hay days I wonder...

Steve

On 14 July 2011 16:32, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/13/11 12:13 PM, Chuck Harris wrote:
>>
>> I can conceive of a case where a publisher like McGraw-Hill's
>> copyrighted book
>> full of public domain IP could be copied if you used your own type font,
>> and
>> formatting of pages, pictures and text, etc...
>>
>
>
> This is precisely the case with West Publishing and various and sundry law
> books.
>
> Where West has a hook (aside from having good search engines and cross
> referencing) is that citations in cases and pleadings, etc., use the West
> system for page/line and so forth.   The codes are perfectly free to copy,
> but if you don't arrange exactly as West does, then the cites don't match
> up.
>
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