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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
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...
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That you do it for free does not imply that people can use the work commercially (ethically).