Pfft comments on Free (old) scientific papers [Link] - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pfft 21 July 2011 07:40:35PM 4 points [-]

Legally, it is clear-cut: digitizing a book creates a new document under copyright.

What do you base this on? There is a comment on Hacker News stating the opposite.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 21 July 2011 09:46:39PM 1 point [-]

I'll concede that it is at least not clear. In any event, I was wrong about Project Gutenberg and Google's position is not entirely clear to me. It is worth noting that the Royal Society is in the UK, where the law is definitely different, if not clear.