On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:22:49AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
On 5/25/06, Ricardo F Diogo <ricardofdiogo@gmail.com> wrote:
In this case, all DP's Content Providers must be explicitly warned that ALL scans CAN be released to the public.
That's always been the assumption, as far as I know.
Some foreign legislation may allow people to scan a book and release it to DP (since it's a "closed" website), but may forbid them to allow those scans to be released to the general public.
DP lets anyone sign up and download the complete scans for a book. I wouldn't be too trusting that that would cover you under any legal system. Note that DP-EU is different; they don't let just anyone look at more pages then they need to proof, which they expect will cover them for offering US-cleared works from a life+50 server.
If an eBooks is public domain in the US, then the scans are too. Even people outside of the US cannot (or at least, not successfully) claim PG can't redistribute them...or anyone else for that matter. I've saved some of our escapades on such issues: http://cand.pglaf.org/ If DP agrees to not redistribute, that's another matter... this is sometimes done for particular sources of content, even if it's public domain. I think it's in everyone's interest to not violate such agreements. We have a little about this in the "Harvesting" section at www.gutenberg.org/howto -- Greg