CHAPTER 6
Scanning, Making Paper and Audio Books, and Sharing Books
Open-Source Book Scanning
The idea that all of human knowledge belongs to all of us is a difficult concept to actualize in a world dominated by copyrights. The concept of copyright, however, is meant to provide authors with an incentive based on a monopoly for a given amount of time, after which the copyrighted work enters the public domain for everyone to enjoy. This is straightforward.
Things get tricky, however, when laws change to benefit a few at the expense of the many. This is illustrated in the expansion of copyright law in the United States, shown in Figure 6.1. Much of the time, these changes effectively took works in the public domain and reverted them to the old ...
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