[time-nuts] MIT RADIATION LABORATORY SERIES 1940-1945 (28 VOLS) on eBay
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Jul 13 19:24:56 UTC 2011
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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