[tei-council] PR for TEI in Google Books (was Re: some brief reports to save time during our upcoming conf call)

[Kevin Hawkins]

Creative work is not the same as "sweat of the brow" in US copyright 
case law.  It takes a lot of effort to compile a telephone book, but 
there's no creativity in its arrangement.  So it is not copyrightable.

Google has developed algorithms for inserting markup, but no TEI 
document created using this algorithm requires creativity.  So the 
algorithm is copyrightable but not the documents it produces.

In any case, no need to trust me.  Let's just be ready with the PR 
announcement in case Google does not attach a copyright notice to the 
TEI document.  If they do attach a copyright notice, I'll be ready to 
argue with the Google engineer that it's a spurious claim.

On 3/5/12 9:18 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> I am not convinced. That PDF is just a set of images, isn't it? The TEI-ed XML version _would_ attract copyright, as there
> is substantial intellectual effort being put into the work. If you can show me a google book with the actual OCRed text being
> given to me with a free license, then I may believe…..
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