These two works are also available at http://www.booksinmyphone.com packages up to run in regular cell phones - so you don't need to be tied to the computer to read them.

This is a good FAQ http://www.chillingeffects.org/anticircumvention/faq.cgi

They list 7 exceptions to the anit-circumvention laws:

* Libraries, archives, and educational institutions for acquisition purposes; [1201(d)]

* Law enforcement and intelligence gathering activities; [1201(e)]

* Reverse engineering in order to develop interoperable programs; [1201(f)]

* Encryption Research; [1201(g)]

* Protecting minors from material on the Internet; [1201(h)]

* Protecting the privacy of personally identifying information; [1201(i)]

* Security Testing [1201(j)]

Somehow the lawmakers left out 'gaining access to works you would otherwise have the rights to'. Breaking the anit-circumvention laws have some pretty heavy penalties.

IANAL but I don't think spell checking, or spell correcting, or even miss-spelling is enough to make a new 'work' from a copyright perspective regardless of the 'effort' it took. I believe there has to be substantial creative transformation before you can legitimately claim a copyright.

If you make a new translation that is copyrightable. Another strategy is to add 'indroductions' or background material, or add lots of footnotes and annotations. All that new material is copyrightable but not the original public domain 'core' of the work - but they just claim the whole thing.

YAMARA, they might be going for the sense of fire in this Thomas Jefferson quote:

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of a thinking power called an idea ... no one possesses the less of it because every other possesses the whole of it ... as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening mine"

As usual there is some kind of Orwellian 'new speak' dissonance.

Also available (along with many others) for those encumered by a regular 'dumb' java enabled phone at http://www.booksinmyphone.com .

0xdeadbeef - I don't know why but phones seem to be built/sold with weird limitations - like only four short memos. They tend to seamlessly support only the things that pay someone money.