I have downloaded a book from Archive.org that was scanned by Microsoft. I have taken time to proofread and attempt to match the original book as closely as possible in the production of a Mobipocket book. I've even included the scanned copy of the cover for the cover of the book. I've already spent about a week or so on this and have a decent product. I've already corrected perhaps a thousand or two OCR errors and I intend on further proofreading and figure it will take me about another week of my personal time. In other words I have put a lot of effort into creating a quality product for my own personal use.
Near the front of the book Microsoft added the following: "Digitized for Microsoft Corporation by the Internet Archive in 2008. From University of California Libraries. May be used for non-commercial, personal, research, or educational purposes, or any fair use. May not be indexed in a commercial service." and at the bottom of every page, except the front and back covers, it states: "Univ Calif - Digitized by Microsoft ®"
The book itself is in the public domain and as far as I can tell you can not buy a copy of the book. Would it be legal for me to sell this copy on Amazon.com or some other ebook website or am I limited (or even allowed) to giving it away on a site such as this?
I know that if I owned a copy of this book and had scanned it in myself that there would be no question that I could do this, but given the source of the scans I don't won't to violate someone's rights, especially Microsoft. Not that I have any respect for Microsoft
, but I don't want to tangle with their lawyers.
Thanks,
Etienne66
