Torrents with public domain paywalled papers from before 1923

Re:Torrents with public domain paywalled papers from before ... by jjeaff on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:14PM (#18827688)

I don't think digitizing a document has ever been ruled as being transformative enough to warrant its own copyright. Now a sylized photo of a document might.

But I could be wrong. Do you have a source?

Even in the case of Aaron Schwartz, they prosecuted on the grounds that his download bot constituted unlawful entry to their system.

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Re:Torrents with public domain paywalled papers from before ... by davvolun on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:44PM (#18827932)

For various reasons, I'm not able to provide a source for this. Suffice to say, just because it seems likely that you would end up winning the case doesn't mean someone with deep pockets won't do everything they can to keep you from doing it.

Does that apply to OPs argument? I don't think so; but just like Aaron Schwartz, lawyers can be quite creative when their clients are willing to pay.

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Re:Torrents with public domain paywalled papers from before ... by xbmcuser on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:51PM (#18835536)

Hasn't gutenberg.com being doing this for the last 40-50 years ie digitising pubic works.

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