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

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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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