No. . .under U.S. law just scanning, xeroxing, photographing or otherwise reproducing a two-dimensional object, two-dimensional result that closely resembles the original. . .no copyrights!!! There must be intellectual input to get a new copyright. . . . However, this might not be true in other countries where sweat of the brow, as it is called, gets you a new copyright, so the answer could be yes for Mr. Schultz and no for Mr. Bowerbird-- or vice versa, depending on how you ask the question. mh On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Keith J. Schultz wrote:

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk,

Bower you should know better.

Though I agree with you morally, but ...

Shakespeare is public domain! But, is I scan say the folios, it is mine to do with it I want to and use what whatever copyright I personally care for!! The same goes for google.

Of course it would be nice to have these scans.

Just on a side nopte I thought you thought the google scans were not that good according to you!??

regards Keith

Am 30.07.2009 um 00:00 schrieb Bowerbird@aol.com:

...

someone needs to remount independently the scan-set from every single public-domain book that google has scanned...

might that be project gutenberg?

if not, then someone else needs to do it.

because it needs to be done...

those books don't belong to google, or to sony, or to barnes & noble, or to anyone else that google decides to share them with. those books belong to the public.

-bowerbird

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