Re: Copyright laws

From: Inger E Johansson (inger_e.johansson_at_notelia.com)
Date: 06/20/04 

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:36:06 GMT

Paul,
no that book isn't public domain in US nor in any other country when it
comes to the question of being scanned and published on net. Sorry for you
but you better talk to one of the Officials at your goverment about it, they
will tell you that there have been several cases up already which show your
assumptions not to be valid.

Inger E

"Paul Murray" <paul@murray.net> skrev i meddelandet
news:knnBc.6995917$iA2.792384@news.easynews.com...
> In article <jWmBc.3183$dx3.24850@newsb.telia.net>, Inger E Johansson
wrote:
> > Paul,
> > the rest is protected my dearWatson. If you or anyone else violate the
> > copyright laws, it's you who will have to pay. End of discussion.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> This link will take you to an electronic version of the book 'Bismarck and
> the Foundation of the German Empire' by James Wycliffe Headlam.
> http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/12400
>
> Here is how that electronic book was created:
>
> I went to a secondhand bookstore and bought a copy of the real book.
> The book was published in 1899, and is therefore public domain in the US.
> Headlam died in 1929, therefore the book is public domain in the EU.
> I scanned the pages of the book, ran a preliminary OCR, and posted the
> images and text to the Distributed Proofreader's site (www.pgdp.net)
> They corrected the text.
> The pages were then all put together again, and the result posted to
Project
> Gutenberg.
>
> This happens everyday, and is completely legal.
>

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