eBay users plagiarizing collectors' content...

Antonio> I'm just taking a wild stab in the dark here, but my guess Antonio> is that Randy (and Al, and almost anyone else doing any Antonio> scanning - me too for that matter) would have less than a Antonio> whole leg to stand on in court! Antonio> I don't claim any rights whatsoever to anything I've Antonio> scanned. I've not heard anyone else here do so either. If Antonio> you are going to complain that someone is taking things Antonio> you've scanned and selling them, would it not be reasonable Antonio> to ask whether the original copyright holder (who presumably Antonio> had to _pay_ to get the manual written!) might not deserve Antonio> at least a chance to deny your request to distribute their Antonio> work? Antonio> Apologies to those who have scanned only after having sought Antonio> permission :-) Actually, even then your comment probably holds. Clearly a scanner can't hold copyright in the original content. That leaves compilation copyright. But it's hard to see how that would apply when the material published is simply a full page by page scan of the original. I have a scanned flight manual (US DOD publication, so no copyright on the original -- so clearly there are no issues with selling the scans). The scanner put a copyright notice on the scanned file. I can't see how that is valid. (Hm, that may explain why I saw a copy of that CD sold by someone else. Impolite, yes. Illegal? I wonder.) Hm, I wonder if the same comment applies to reprints of old books -- introductions and the like of course. paul paul