----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Fawthrop" <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk> To: gbnewby@pglaf.org, "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Commercial paper editions of PG texts Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:18:22 +0000
|> |> AFAIK the copyright notice is valid, but only applies to the page and line ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |> layout plus cover layout of the new paper edition, not the PG text. Not ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |> that they would tell you that. | |Not in our opinion (which has been vetted by several expert |copyright lawyers): | | No Sweat of the Brow Copyright | http://www.gutenberg.org/howto/sweat-no-c
Which is what I said :-(
If I understand it right, there is no separate layout copyright in the US (which is the law PG operates under). So, no, the copyright notice is not valid because there is no copyright available for layout. Josh