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Originally Posted by tompe
I have always thought that these non-economic rights was forever. At least the part of the name being associated with the work.
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It's being labeled as the "NewSouth Edition" (that's the publisher), which is likely sufficient. Probably better if they added "edited by" but I don't think that's legally required.
As to the other part:
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Originally Posted by tompe
By copyright law, the artist or originator has the right to be associated by name with the artistic work. Furthermore, the artist possesses "the right to respect for the work," which stipulates that the work cannot be changed or distributed to the public in a manner that is "damaging to the originator's literary or artistic reputation or distinctive character."
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Once something is in public domain, I don't believe any such restrictions exist. Plagiarism is not illegal, nor is warping a PD text to your own ends. (It is socially disapproved, though, so if you tried to pass off a PD text as your own, you'd probably run into other types of trouble.)
There might be some protections listed in the US Copyright Code that I'm not familiar with, but so far it seems obvious to me that you can re-write PD material, including to the point where the author might regard the finished product as a mangling of their work. Again, see
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is partly attributed to Jane Austen -- and, I suspect, of which she would not approve.