Quoting Weinheimer Jim <j.weinheimer_at_AUR.EDU>:
>
> I am still not sure why Google does that for books that are clearly
> in the public domain.
Because public domain is calculated differently in different
countries. I don't know if Google actually has a country-by-country
solution, or if it divides the world into "US/not-US".
kc
p.s. Public domain in Italy is being set at 1868 for the purposes of
the Google Book scanning, at least according to one source. I thought
I had heard the figure of 1898 elsewhere.
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Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 10:27:49 EDT