Re: question about assigning copyright to PG

On Mon 07-Jul-2003 23:16 -0400, Michael Hart wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > In a possibly unrelated, hypothetical scenario, would PG accept a
> > book that was free as an etext, but still under copyright, and the
> > copyright holder wanted to retain print rights?
> 
> Sure. . .we have never asked for ANY exlusive rights, just permission.

I would hope PG would *not* accept a text under such terms.  If a text
is in PG, that is a big signal that I can make any use of it that I
like, including print it and distribute the result.

Allowing texts into PG with terms that restrict normal usage will send a
confusing message.  Please don't!

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