[Foundation-l] Fair Use and Registered Trademarks

Tue Jul 12 09:00:32 UTC 2005

Actually, I don't think you can digitize some public domain work and  
change its title unless you also change its content.

At least in France, that would be forbidden by the moral rights  
legislation.

Le 11 juil. 05 à 14:33, Robert Scott Horning a écrit :

> Lars Aronsson wrote:
>
>
>> Robert Scott Horning wrote:
>>
>>
>>> There must be more to the story than what Michael Hart is  
>>> suggesting here.
>>>
>>>
>> Why do you think that "must be"?  Project Gutenberg is run by  
>> Michael Hart.  Who else should answer your questions?  A strong  
>> disclaimer doesn't always have a strong reason.
>>
>> When we digitize old (Scandinavian) encyclopedias, magazines, and  
>> other printed works in Project Runeberg, we never had to alter the  
>> title, but always reproduced the title as it was printed.  There  
>> seems to be no risk that readers should confuse the old issues  
>> with the current product.
>>
>>
> It just seems as though the natural route would have been to simply  
> leave it alone and not call it something special like Project  
> Gutenberg Encyclopedia, but instead call it by its original name,  
> such as exactly what you just described, and about 99% of all items  
> found in Project Gutenberg.  A disclaimer like what is put on that  
> particular e-text is furthermore unusual, even for a PG text  
> because it is in addtion to the usual disclaimer found on most  
> other PG texts.
>
> What is more, there is another Encyclopaedia Britannica text in the  
> PG archive that does not have this disclaimer, although that text  
> (e-text #13600) does not appear to have the same scruitiny that  
> previous e-texts went through at the beginning of the PG archive.   
> It will be interesting to see what happens when several more  
> volumes are released for this edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica,  
> as they are currently in the final stages of proofreading/assembly  
> right now.
>
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