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Originally Posted by Hadrien
Are these public domain books only ? If it's the case, you can do anything you want with it. OCRing and reformatting a public domain book doesn't create a "new copyright" for it: http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6901
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One can have a "compilation copyright" on a collection of material, even if the individual contents of the collection are in the public domain.
Eg, in the UK, the telephone directory is protected by copyright, even though all the information it contains is in the public domain.
In the case of the BlackMask DVD, things like their indexes, etc, will be protected by copyright, and one could not duplicate the DVD without BlackMask's permission.