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Old 07-12-2008, 01:56 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
If you take a photograph of a page of a PD book (and that's really all that a scan is), then that photograph is your intellectual property, irrespective of what's displayed on it. A scan is the same. I very much doubt that anyone's going to object, practically speaking, to you using their scan, but in theory I think they could do.
I am not sure I would agree that a scan is covered under copyright the way a picture is. A picture is a photograph and may have artistic value and may even have special permissions from the subject. They are copyrighted as artistic works as are books. Just because something is a jpeg image does not mean that it is automatically copyrighted. It is not the representation media that is copyrighted. A scan is more like a copy machine. Copy machine items are not separately copyrighted.

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