[Foundation-l] [Wikimediauk-l] [Fwd: Royal Society Digital Journal Archive]

[David Gerard]

On 27/09/06, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> The intellectual property comes
> with the work of arrangement, cataloging and transferring to a new medium.
> As far as I know, this is the case (or claimed case, anyway) with many
> digital archives of old material in the U.S.


Turns out it isn't, largely; or it'd be *quite* a stretch to claim
someone couldn't reproduce a scan because you'd arranged and
catalogued it along with the slavish copying that explicitly doesn't
create a new copyright. In any case, Commons would promptly reorganise
it.


- d.