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So germans should be running to their local library, in order to digitize everything and claim new copyright? Better the citizenry do it than corporations.

• incompatible 10y ago
  They'd only have copyright over their own photo (and it's not clear a scan would count). Anybody else could still make another photo with a separate copyright.
  • anonbanker 10y ago
    why wouldn't a scan count? Every tax agency I've ever heard of accepts scans in lieu of paper.
    • incompatible 10y ago
      Because the German ruling applied specifically to photographs, if I understand correctly.