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Originally Posted by emellaich
My expectation would be that Google would be able to copyright their scan's of the public domain work. In general, if you create a new form of a work, I think you could copyright that form, but not the content..
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But to qualify for copyright, there must be some level of creativity involved. The US cases that have been ruled on (starting with Bridgeman v Corel) say that merely reproducing a 2D work exactly is not a creative act, and so the resulting copy does not attract its own copyright protection. However this ruling is not binding on all courts, and there is no decision that is, so until a case gets all the way to the supreme court noone knows for certain what the outcome would be.