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Scanning a public domain work doesn't give you copyright over it. See Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
by ig1 17y ago
Scanning a public domain work doesn't give you copyright over it. See Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.
- 10ren 17y ago"...which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright because the copies lack originality." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_....
- jerf 17y agoGoogle was probably giving a limited license on the collection copyright, which is much less protective than "normal" copyright. It's harder to google for that term than many other copyright terms, but here it is from the horse's mouth: http://www.sacred-texts.com/sect103.htm http://www.sacred-texts.com/sect103.htm Google does have a copyright on the collection as a whole, even as they do not gain any extra rights on the underlying public domain material. It's sort of weird, but it does make sense.