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Originally Posted by HarryT
Not necessarily.
If you put work into "laying out" a public domain work in a non-trivial manner then, at least in the UK, you can claim what's called a "typographical copyright" on that book, even if the text is in the public domain. This lasts for a fixed term of 25 years, from the date of the initial publication of your version.
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It does not protect our fiend from a "copy, paste, change font and page size" action...
typographical copyright is good for printed work, but electronic?
