In a message dated 1/15/2009 6:46:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
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.>> ----------------------------------- You know perfectly well this is a "theory" of the law and the case law is not clear. And I hope you realize the chilling effect it gives to state that something like Google Books has no protection for their out-of-copyright scans. That Microsoft or whoever, can simply copy all of that material onto their own servers and thumb their noses at Google. That is what you're saying. That theory would effectively end anyone attempting to upload PD anything of significant value. Sure people will upload little dribs and drabs but we'll not be getting thousands of pages of census, and hundreds of thousands of pages of documents, maps, etc, since anyone like yourself can just copy the entire contents, rehost them, and place your own ads on your own server and make money off doing virtually nothing. This is what you want to happen on the internet? This sounds like a good thing to you? **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
