Robert Cicconetti wrote:
Copyright works have to be in the public domain before any at DP touches it. It's still in the public domain while at DP, and it is in the public domain when it leaves DP for PG. We can try[1] to restrict access to intermediate stages by technical means, but we do NOT have any legal means to prevent redistribution short of trying something with contract law (a EULA or such).[2]
What??? Are you saying everybody can steal everybody's else's files if they contain only PD material? If you *publish* PD material, everybody can take it and re-use it as they see fit. To publish something means to make it available to everybody. If you keep PD material on a workgroup server which is not accessible to the public at large and somebody grabs this material without your permission, then the material is *stolen* and you can prosecute them. (Provided you can prove that it was indeed your file, which should not be difficult because the scanno pattern is practically a watermark.) -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org