Stephen Bain wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:27 AM, Parker Higgins<parkerhigg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Except google isn't asserting any kind of copyright control over these >> books, they're just not making it convenient to download them in your >> preferred format. Maybe not The Right Thing, but not as boneheaded as suing >> a party who reprints public domain material, as was the case in Feist v. >> Rural (the supreme court case you mention.) >> > They want people to use their service. Fair enough, given that the > scanning and OCRing happened on their dime. > > How does that give them any special rights? There are no database protection laws in the US, and sweat-of-the-brow has been rejected as a basis for new copyrights.
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