InfoD-Cafe: ReadHowYouWant.com paperback editions

[Swanson, Gunnar]

Deborah,

I'm not following the conversation. I thought you were talking about 16C and 17C texts. There are no fair use issues involved since such texts are public domain, thus not covered by copyright, thus a copyright exception is unneeded. Are you talking about recent writings about texts that are in the public domain?

You say that "Many scholars are already really nervous about publicly posting pictures of the archival documents & artifacts they study." Why?

> For those of us who work in the "humanities," academic
> values are often perceived as being at odds with commercial
> values, and as a result, we tend to intertwine Fair Use
> protections with prohibitions against "commercial use,"

"Fair use" -is- intertwined with commercial use and prohibitions against or restrictions of commercial use.

I'm not sure what your specific ethical worries are about formatting and selling public domain materials for a reader. How does that differ from someone printing copies of a bible or -The Wealth of Nations- or -Huckleberry Finn- and selling them?

Gunnar
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