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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
No, the right to sell modified PD works has to exist. The right to sell format shifted but otherwise unmodified work does not.
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That sounds like a slippery slope, Kovid. The extreme situation where somebody used calibre on PG text and then turned around to offer it for a mere "pittance" of $10 is a case where most of us will agree that it is a highway robbery.
On the other side, what ahi did with his
PDF versions of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" can easily be qualified as a "format shifting", to PDF, of Lionel Giles' translation, which
is available from PG. Let's put aside what both you and I think of PDF as a format for e-books, when ahi offered his version(s) to the MR users, quite a few of them liked it a lot.
I am not so sure that "modification" can be easily distinguished from "format shifting".