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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Markup could be independently copyrightable. So that the you could reproduce the text, but not the markup that had been added.
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Markup is independently copyrightable.
For instance, I have electronic editions of PG texts from
Munseys and
Manybooks.
Both start in most cases from Project Gutenberg etexts, and offer conversions to a variety of different electronic formats. In many cases, they are doing things like adding HTML markup with a working table of contents to ebooks that PG only has in plain text format.
The source text is in the public domain. The additions they make are not, and are copyrighted. If I try to take one of their ebooks and offer it unchanged as my own work, I'm in violation of copyright.
There is also the notion of a
"compilation copyright" covering the assembly of previously issued information in a compilation that may apply.
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Dennis