[Foundation-l] Info/Law blog: Using Wikisource as an Alternative Open Access Repository for Legal Scholarship

Sun Jun 21 01:55:24 UTC 2009

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Parker Higgins<parkerhiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> Except google isn't asserting any kind of copyright control over these
> books, they're just not making it convenient to download them in your
> preferred format.  Maybe not The Right Thing, but not as boneheaded as suing
> a party who reprints public domain material, as was the case in Feist v.
> Rural (the supreme court case you mention.)

They want people to use their service. Fair enough, given that the
scanning and OCRing happened on their dime.

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com