Why Scans of Public Domain Books Cannot Be Copyrighted
Sunday, February 1st, 2009(This is a followup to one of the points in my earlier post about Google Books changes) Paul Durrant in a comment on the TeleRead blog cited a very interesting factoid: In the US, at least, you can’t claim copyright on an out-of-copyright work just through simple mechanical reproduction of the work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_Corp. According ...
