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Updated IPR Policy for PublicDomainReprints.org
Posted February 1, 2009 – 11:50 pm by Yakov Shafranovich in ProjectsI updated the IPR policy for PublicDomainReprints.org with a small paragraph explaining why scans of public domain works are not under copyrighted and a reference to the approriate court case as follows:
As per Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp. (36 F. Supp. 2d 191 – SDNY 1999), exact photographic reproductions of public domain works, which seemingly applies to digital scans of books, cannot be protected by any sort of copyright under United States law because they are not considered “original works”. Therefore, we treat as public domain any scan we obtain where the underlying work is in public domain.
Please also see my earlier post and this post.
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