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Originally Posted by HarryT
To the best of my knowledge, ANY commercially-published classic, even when derived from a public domain source, is a copyrighted work, regardless of whether the publisher has added anything to it (as you say, they generally do add introductions and things like that). I could claim a copyright on the Dickens books I've posted here if I wanted to (which I don't).
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Which illustrates the flaw in copyrighting. If an original work has fallen out of copyright and some publisher comes along and slaps on a foreword or adds some illustrations in a re-issue - post-copyright - it should not be considered 'copyrighted'.
And then we have the idiotic mess commonly called DRM... Gives one pause to wonder whether we've really 'progressed' this past century.
Derek