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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Google Books lists scans of books from the 19th century as copyrighted because of this. Not new books with any material added -- their own scans of old books.
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Google do this to try to claim ownership of the scans and scare other people off from using them. While the US rulings that exist say that they do not have any copyright in those images, there has not been a definitive federal ruling, and it is possible they could get a ruling in their favour.
In the meantime, PGDP view Google scans as a legitimate source on the basis that Google's copyright claim is invalid.