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Originally Posted by tompe
But it was not a public domain contribution.
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Yes, but the
labor of the scanning/proofing, regardless of the copyright status of the underlying material, was
pro bono.
The question was the ethics of Starrigger of using that labor for free. Starrigger could use it because he owns the copyright. The person who did the labor had no claim, as he/she did it for free anyway.
Not saying that the scanner had the legal right to do the scanning...