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
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