Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [*] I once wanted a reliable text of some Edgar Allan Poe. There were > versions all over the web, of course, but they were all slightly > different. I made a list of the differences and consulted a microfilm > copy of an original edition in Cambridge university library to resolve > them. I invested several hours work into that exercise, so maybe I > could, as a sort of amateur textual critic, claim copyright in the > final result.
This is incorrect. Whether you can claim copyright has nothing to do with how much effort went into the process. What you did was prepare an accurate electronic text of that microfilm, and since the microfilm was not copyrighted, and your process was mechanical--you could have just typed it directly--you didn't do anything to which copyright can attach. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
