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Note that at least in some countries just scanning may be considered enough work that the scanned version is again under copyright. See the questionable German
by legulere 11y ago
Note that at least in some countries just scanning may be considered enough work that the scanned version is again under copyright.
See the questionable German Projekt Gutenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projekt_Gutenberg-DE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projekt_Gutenberg-DE
- pbhjpbhj 11y agoThe wikipedia article is a bit thin on details - for example are they claiming their compilation is a new copyright (it most likely is) or are they claiming their individual scans of historic works each are copyright to them? Is there a proper English language discussion of any court case in which this has been tested for this particular claim? For reference this http://www.jcms-journal.com/articles/10.5334/jcms.1021217/ http://www.jcms-journal.com/articles/10.5334/jcms.1021217/ is quite a good review of the NPG vs Coetzee non-case [English law] and the Bridgeman vs Corel case [USA law].