On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 00:44:17 -0800 (PST), Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote: |Hi Tony. | |I believe that the matter under discussion was not a matter |of the rights surrounding the source texts used to produce PG |materials, but rather rights of the PG texts themselves. | |The argument (if I understood correctly) was that in some |juristictions legal usage of PG texts might be restricted |because the "typesetting" done in preparing the PG texts |would qualify for certain protections on its own. In which case IMO PG should put all its work explicitly into the public domain as MH suggested up thread. This is what I did with my Yorkshire Dialect work on my Web Site. It has been copied widely, (I can tell it is my work from the line breaks of poetry) including a Print on Demand outfit. As I work Pro Bono Publico I am happy to see my work reproduced anywhere. -- Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> "Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*. "Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*. More like "Incompetent design". Sig (C) Copyright Public Domain