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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
If not, how can Barnes and Noble publish various classic PD books with copyright notices in them?
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Anyone can publish PD works with copyright notices in them. Whether the copyright notice is valid is another thing. I don't think there's any US or UK law forbidding the placement of a copyright notice on something that's in the public domain.
In the UK there is a typographic copyright that lasts for 25 years from the date of publication. But the law as written only applies to printed material. Although it should probably apply to ebooks, it's not certain that it really does.