You cannot scan in every page, then print the book as your own. How are then public domain works to be used? Lets say someone wants to publish the works of Shakespeare.
Where do you get the works from?
Can that person take a copy of a (newly copyrighted) Shakespeare collection and copy it by typing it into her PC? If so how is different to scanning?
Can that person scan the book and then "re-format" it (change the font, change the page layout) automatically thus saving on the typing?
Or is it neccessary to obtain a collection whose copyright has expired?
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I'm no history expert, but I don't recollect India being liberated by the Americans (or any other western power).
Where do you get the works from?
Can that person take a copy of a (newly copyrighted) Shakespeare collection and copy it by typing it into her PC? If so how is different to scanning?
Can that person scan the book and then "re-format" it (change the font, change the page layout) automatically thus saving on the typing?
Or is it neccessary to obtain a collection whose copyright has expired?
In order for correlation to come close to proving causation, the correlation must be both Necessary AND Sufficient.
There you go.
That might not be such a bad idea. They might release the source code with all the comments stripped out!