[Upd-discuss] Piracy and the Courts [2]

[Dean Anderson]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Adam Moran wrote:

> 
>    Project Gutenberg's Position on "Sweat of the Brow" Copyright Claims
>    --------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
>    There is some value-added content that DOES get a new copyright, but
>    only for the actual new work (that is, it may be possible to remove
>    the new copyrighted content to go back to a public domain document):
>
> [...] 
>      - creating a new compilation of existing materials (though the
>        individual items compiled retain their public domain status)
> [...]

Did I misunderstand this?? I thought Project Gutenberg was against database
copyright....

		--Dean 

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