Re: question about assigning copyright to PG

At 13:23 +1000 2003/07/08, Ben Finney wrote:
>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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I have submitted a book and I retain the copyright. The book has been widely copied and people do believe that the book is copyright free.

For example...

<http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/history/radio/>

Gordon Joly.

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