Cropping scans (briss is great for such a work) is very useful for a comfortable proofreading. What I've to do, if unluckily Google watermark is cut away by a useful cropping?
More: Google can use the hard wikisource work to enhance the quality of the text layer of its books, so wikisource is working (for free) for Google. Last: I never use Google pdf files as they are; I usually use Internet Archive djvu files, as they are. Alex 2015-10-20 17:18 GMT+02:00 Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy <[email protected]>: > Hello everybody. I have a question about watermark removal on Wikisource. > If I removal claims copyright page and watermark of Google in the > Google-scanned books under this guidance < > https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:DjVu_files#Removing_a_copyright_page>, > then legal or not? Because per statement of Google, the Google-scanned > books must be preserved such pages and watermark copyright. > > This guidance about removal watermark mainly based on case law Bridgeman > Art Library v. Corel Corp. (see also < > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:When_to_use_the_PD-scan_tag#USA>), > which (follow Wikipedia < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp.#Subsequent_jurisprudence>) > is in controversial: *"We are not convinced that the single case to > which we are pointed where copyright was awarded for a “slavish copy” > remains good law." The appeals court ruling cited and followed the **United > States Supreme Court > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court> decision > in Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone Service > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Telephone_Service>** > (1991), > explicitly rejecting difficulty of labor or expense as a consideration in > copyrightability..."* > > Suppose that in future Google litigation Wikipedia for removing the page > of Google claiming copyright in the Google-scanned books and that case was > heard by the appeals court or the US Supreme Court (higher competent than > Southern New York Court) and the court reverse ruling, then what should we > do? > > Trần Nguyễn Minh Huy > Supporter, Wikimedia Projects > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > >
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