[time-nuts] MIT RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES 1940-1945 (28 VOLS) on eBay

[William H. Fite]

Thanks, Chuck, and sorry, John.  I did, indeed, misunderstand and you are
entirely correct.

Bill

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> You are reading John's statement incorrectly.  He is saying that all of
> these
> guys that are scanning copyrighted (or public domain) material are not
> eligible
> for a copyright just for doing the scanning.... That would be like the
> saying the
> company that makes the printer (let's say Xerox) is eligible for a
> copyright on
> material printed on their printers.... but rather their only right to
> copyright
> is for IP material that they add to the original document, not the original
> document.
>
> Groups like McGraw-Hill may not own the IP that is in their books, but they
> do
> own the presentation, with its arrangement of pictures, typefaces, and
> arrangement
> or text on the pages, etc..
>
> I can conceive of a case where a publisher like McGraw-Hill's copyrighted
> book
> full of public domain IP could be copied if you used your own type font,
> and
> formatting of pages, pictures and text, etc...
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
>
> William H. Fite wrote:
>
>> I just ran into one of our attorneys in the hallway.  Copyright refers to
>> the intellectual property, not to the medium.  The fact that the
>> intellectual property of the author is moved from a book to a CD does not
>> affect copyright, so long as the content is not otherwise altered.  Think
>> about it; if your friend's contention were true, we could all dodge
>> copyright restrictions simply by photocopying (scanning) the material we
>> wished to appropriate.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:02 AM, J. Forster<jfor at quik.com>  wrote:
>>
>> That is apparently the case for the HC books.
>>>
>>> I'm not so sure about the CDs. A friend who is an IP attorney has told me
>>> that if you scan something, you cannot copyright the scan. You can
>>> copyright any new content you add.
>>>
>>> FWIW,
>>>
>>> -John
>>>
>>
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