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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
The copyright is for the version published at the time. Republishing it does not extend the copyright. If additional (or revised matter) is added, that sets a new copyright to that material, but is does not change the copyright for the original material.
Let me give a US example. James Branch Cabell wrote a book called Lines Of Love in 1907. He then rewrote is in 1922. He then re-rewrote in it in 1928 as part of his Biography of Manuel Storisende edition. The US copyright starts in Jan 1, 1923. So the 1907 variant is public domain in the US, as well as the 1922 variant, but the 1928 variant is under copyright. If he had not changed the material, but just added a forward, only the forward would have been under copyright for the 1928 version.
Inter-government copyright law is not simple, and I won't even attempt it.
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Thre is currently a case before the US Supreme Court concerning Inter-country copyright.