so let's boil the question down to the hard case, shall we?

suppose that amazon -- or anyone else -- offered up that
project gutenberg could veto a republisher selling e-texts
that "reasonably" look like they were repurposed from p.g.,
and amazon (or that anyone else) would respect the veto...

do you think project gutenberg should exercise that veto?

consider the matter carefully, my friends, _very_ carefully...

-bowerbird