[free-sklyarov] _Alice_ read aloud

[Will Janoschka]

Sat, 25 Aug 2001 12:04:34 Huaiyu Zhu huaiyu_zhu at yahoo.com wrote:

>He is confused on at least three points.

>1. A new typography on a public domain work may be copyrightable for
>that new part, but nothing more.  Just like if you draw a new
>illustration and publish it with some existing text, you have
>copyright on the illustration but not on the text.  So theoretically
>he could copyright his work in the sense of an artistic replica of a
>piece of antique, but at most in that sense.

>2. It is a false claim that the new work is not easily detached from
>the original.  If it is transfered to any other font, it is separated
>from his new font.  Or it could be extracted to plain text.
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 Since PDF is a raster format everything appears mixed, like pictures,        
 and hard to separate.  If you you could convert back to PDF and then
 use an undamaged PDF reader, like Ghostscript, the text could easily        
 be extracted.  That would be the deadly "circumvention" however.