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Re: copyright question

> In a similar way, JSTOR is locking up electronically a number of articles
> that are now in the public domain in paper format.
> 
> Alas and alack...

Yet, I and others I know will buy a bound book copy of The Divine Comedy
before we download and print the Project Gutenberg version.  The latter is
freely available to many since many have a net connection, but we find the
value added in the bound edition is worth the price.  Just because
material is in the public domain, it does not follow that the work people
do to make it more accessible should be made freely available.

JSTOR offers value, they have done work to make the material more
accessible.  They have gone to the trouble to collect a vast volume of
research, scan it, and make it searchable and downloadable via a web
browser.

Jim
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