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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
And more specifically, would you be willing to countenance a scenario where someone changes the text of a public domain work and then sells it as the original work. Just because a work is in the public domain, that most definitely should not mean there should be absolutely no restrictions on what can be done with it.
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I entirely agree with you that there are all sorts of things that one would not like to see people doing with books that are in the public domain, but the price to pay for imposing legal restrictions on its use would be one that would be too high to pay: the effect would almost inevitably be to harm the legitimate user far more than the (very rare) abuser of this material.