A fellow researcher would like to include in a profile all of the text (verbatim) from a very romanticized US county history.
I had removed it for fear of copyright infringement, but its copyright is expired and it was digitized on Internet Archive. I don't know if this puts it in the public domain or not. I know that FamilySearch and Ancestry also have digitized public domain documents ...and yet to publish a downloaded image from those sites would violate not only their terms of service, but also be copyright infringement as they have copyright on the digitized content.
Is verbatim text from a book digitized on Internet Archive fair game for a profile?
At present, an excerpt from the book is included in the sources with a link to the actual text.
But the fellow researcher wishes all of that text to be included in the biography. I am opposed to this because it does not add to the biography, only muddies the well sourced facts (it's also a tertiary source as the numerous erroneous facts are not even sourced within). However, the fellow researcher believes it is equally important to include the text as a means of showcasing the legends that can come about in a family history. And I think that can be a valid argument... so long as we're not continuing to perpetuate the myths.
Under "Research Notes", there is also mention of two other inaccurate (and disproven) accounts of the ancestor's life. But not the florid accounts themselves. Should this third "history" include all of the lengthy text or just key parts (and, of course, sourced with a link to the book)?