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Subject: Re: electronic copyright collection of public domain materials (fwd)
>From: jwarren@autodesk.com (Jim Warren)
>Subject: Re: electronic copyright collection of public domain materials (fwd)
>
>Many thanks for forwarding the posting. Hmmm -- gotta look into the details.
>Don't see how they can copyright classic literature for which the copyrights
>have long ago expired. One of the many upcoming struggles for electronic
>publishing.
>--jim
My point exactly. I can see how they can get a compilation copyright in
the whole anthology, but not how they can get a copyright in the individual
texts after Feist.
Mary Brandt Jensen University of South Dakota
Director of the Law Library School of Law
Professor of Law 414 E. Clark St.
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