Quote:
Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Maybe I read through the thread too quickly. But while source material in the Public Domain is available for anyone to use, Can't individual's work done to format and present the PD material be copyrighted (or at least protected in some way)?
If not, how can Barnes and Noble publish various classic PD books with copyright notices in them?
|
As I understand it if you take a book, say 20,000 leagues under the seas by Jules Verne (which is in PD) and do a new translation from the original French then that new translation is copyrighted to you even though the original is long past the copyright stage.