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At the end of the day, as Jellby says, you can make whatever copyright claims you want, but it boils down to a judge's decision should you decide to sue someone for copyright infringement. Copyright protection requires creativity; "mechanical" processes such as correcting spelling mistakes are not copyrightable. You could argue that your selection of material is a creative process; a judge may or may not agree with you.
My honest advice would be that if the thought of someone redistributing your book worries you, don't upload it (and I say that as someone who's created hundreds of ebooks and seen them copied and resold by unscrupulous people out to make a fast buck). Once you upload it to any public site like MR, it's no longer in your control.
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