[WikiEN-l] copyright on scanned copy?

Sat Nov 25 01:21:12 UTC 2006

Sean Barrett wrote:

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>geni stated for the record:
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>>On 11/19/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>You are not "free to try and claim" so much as "it is very rare that
>>>people ever get taken to court for false copyright claims over PD
>>>material, even though it is illegal."
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>>How is it illegal?
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>Fraud.
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506(c) of the U.S. Copyright Law:

> (c) Fraudulent Copyright Notice. - Any person who, with fraudulent 
> intent, places on any article a notice of copyright or words of the 
> same purport that such person knows to be false, or who, with 
> fraudulent intent, publicly distributes or imports for public 
> distribution any article bearing such notice or words that such person 
> knows to be false, shall be fined not more than $2,500.

This is quite low for a maximum fine, and the burden of proving
fraudulent intent and knowledge that the claim is false may be enough
to make this section unusable.

(re-sent) Ec