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A little debate in the LibraryLawBloghttp://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2004/07/the_public_doma.html#moreQuote from Peter Hirtle's statement:In short, while many libraries may have in the pre-Bridgeman past claimed copyright in digital scans, and while many might still wish to be able to do so, I believe that most libraries and archives are moving away from copyright claims and instead asserting contractual claims based on their physical ownership of an image. Whether this is a good thing or not is something that I tried to address in the essay I cited at the beginning of this too-long message.The cited essay is available at:http://hdl.handle.net/1813/52