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

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Wed Jul 13 19:31:10 UTC 2011


Any OCR I've seen would take a lot of human intervention, even with a
clean original.

-John

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> In message <4E1DEE43.3070700 at erols.com>, Chuck Harris writes:
>
>>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...
>
> Yeah, well, maybe...
>
> The crux of this case is that it has to be humans doing it.
>
> Just OCR'eing the book and letting a computer reformat the words to
> a different page-layout is unlikely to earn you a copyright.
>
>
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