SC - test test test-OT-OOP-IGNORE

[Philip & Susan Troy]

At 12:32 AM -0800 11/30/99, Richard Kappler wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Kappler [mailto:rkappler at home.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 12:31 AM
>To: Sca-coks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: copyrights
>
>
>So here's a question, now that I have this new whammydyne contraption up and
>mostly running.  One of the books I have contains a facsimile of a 1601
>treatise on commerce.  The book that contains the facsimile was published in
>1931.  Would I be violating copyright if I scanned and promulgated the copy
>of the original text?
>
>regards, Puck

No.

As long as your copy does not contain any original material from the 
1931 version (footnotes, for example, or possibly even selection of 
important passages), you are not violating copyright. Under current 
law, there must be some element of originality in a work in order for 
it to qualify for copyright protection--and a straight facsimile of 
an older work doesn't qualify.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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