SC - FW: copyrights
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Mon Nov 29 22:38:16 PST 1999
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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