Law Book Text
Law Book Text
Does anyone know about copyright law relating to scans of books in the public domain?
Specifically, if I take a book from 1880 (obviously in the public domain), scan it, convert it to PDF, and sell it on Ebay as a PDF, do I have any rights under copyright law that could deter someone from buying that pdf from me and turning right around and selling it themselves?
Put more abstractly, if a text is in the public domain and my only contribution to it is to digitize it from an old book into a pdf or other format, can the result be copyrighted?
You cannot create nor maintain any copyright or proprietary interest in a work which is in the public domain. That is the entire definition of "public domain."
You are certainly free to scan the book into PDF files and sell these files for a fee, but you cannot pretend or represent to hold a copyright interest in these works, since the material is in the public domain.
You can hold an ownership interest in the computer files themselves, but once you sell the files, any buyer of the file can do as they please with it, including posting their own copy on the internet for further sale at a profit, and you would have no claim to their earnings.
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