3 Dec
2010
3 Dec
'10
8:41 a.m.
keith said:
What I am try to say I amazon is selling PG texts PG should get something out of it.
when you call them "p.g. texts", you create an implicit conveyance that p.g. owns them, and then extrapolate from that to jump to the conclusion p.g. should be compensated. but project gutenberg doesn't own those texts. i'm sorry, but it's true. even the sweat-of-the-brow _improvements_ which p.g. volunteers made to those e-texts do _not_ entitle p.g. to any legal recompense. again, i'm sorry, but it's true. good thing, too, or p.g. volunteers would likely have to pay internet archive and/or google for using their scan-sets and o.c.r., and everyone would have to be paying the libraries who shelved the books for decades. -bowerbird