[Taxacom] BHL and print on demand publishers: interpretation of law

[Doug Yanega]

>DA: Nabu, the way I understand it, does not take your new book at the moment
>you publish it and competes with this. Rather, it takes oldish work and
>creates a print on demand and sells it.

Since when is 1997 "oldish"?

see http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/3615

versus

http://www.amazon.com/rediscovered-primitive-ants-Hymenoptera-relationships/dp/1174789123/ref=sr_1_72?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332970174&sr=1-72

Even if one allows for the possibility of a recent work being public 
domain, and therefore legally eligible for Nabu to re-use, that still 
doesn't make it right for them to do it when other people are making 
the same content available - for free - and at their own expense. 
Nabu does not, apparently, scan any documents themselves; it appears 
that they take digital files produced by others and print them and 
mail them - and take money for them, sharing nothing with the people 
who digitized them and put them online.

Sincerely,
-- 

Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
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