Can a publisher put public-domain government documents into an electronic database along with copyrightable content and then claim a copyright on all the contents of the database? This is the topic of an interesting thread running on the LibLicense discussion forum.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 8/23/2002 12:26:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
