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

[Chuck Harris]

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