They
create schools for their «intelligent» children to attend, they pay for test preparation programs and tutors, they spend countless hours volunteering in their children's schools, they raise extraordinary
amounts of money for these schools, and they call on their
vast network
of friends and relatives to get their children into preschools and magnet schools and universities.
But the Governor
of the Bank
of England has rejected the comparison, pointing out that the Bank is not printing
vast amounts of new bank notes and insisting that the
amount of new
money being electronically
created is not big enough to generate «anything remotely like» that kind
of situation.
As such, I don't think the ProCD case applies in my situation due to the qualitative differences between licensing CD - ROMs with
vast amounts of information that has been compiled and which has value added search features added to it versus the «sale»
of single copies
of public domain sheet music (however, a library that
creates and licenses for sale a CD - ROM with hundreds
of individual pieces
of public domain sheet music might be protected by the principles in ProCD since a court might recognize and protect the library's investment
of time and
money in
creating the CD - ROM, but even in that situation, if the library is not otherwise adding value - added information above and beyond the public domain content, it is not obvious that ProCD applies).