On 12/02/2010 08:19 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
WHAT ???? Go out and buy a recently published and book of Shakespeare works and hold and behold a copyright notice! Oh, my gosh, they are copyrighting something that can not be copyrighted.
All copyright laws that I'm aware of put heavy penalities on copyright infringement but none puts any penalty on false copyright claims. That's because in capitalism most laws are for protecting the big corporations against the small people.
The copyright is naturally, nor for the works of shakespeare, but on the book itsself. PG has rights to the text they produce and put on the web. You are telling me that in the Staes that if I state you can use what I put any in the public domain for FREE distribution and state that if it is commercially used that 20% is to go to me that no court will protect my rights and term of use! Poor America.
You have failed to understand the PG license. But that's not your fault. The license is useless and incomprehensible. The PG license *only* states that if you want to use the PG *trademark*, you have to fork out some of your earnings. PG never made a penny out of the license, it just annoys users, and should be scrapped for good.
Here in Germany it would be a piece of cake. No matter how poorly the terms were written, as long as it is evident that commercial use entices a fee.
In Germany its the same as in the US. You don't get a new copyright for a reproduction of a public domain work. You get a copyright if you edit it *if* your editorial interventions show sufficient high creativity: "ausreichende Schöpfungshöhe". Of course "ausreichende Schöpfungshöhe" can be granted at the judges will, but no judge will grant you that just for marking up paragraphs and chapters.
You talk alot of being uninformed, how about living in the real world! Wake people.
You are talking BS again. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org