On 8/28/06, Brewer, Michael <brewerm[_at_]u.library.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> ... Is this a
> common practice? ...
Yes, from the old works to standards to genealogical data to maps to chess games to telephone directory to recipes to digitization and so on.
The attempt to copyright (or to claim copyright on, for those who dislike copyright as verb) the uncopyrightable or public domain works is mainly driven by greed (the desire to make money and to control over the use and distribution) and sloth. This is not limited to copyright but is also true for the licenses.
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,506
Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Thu Aug 31 2006 - 22:55:00 GMT
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