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Old 03-28-2014, 05:53 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
I found it now. In Sweden an a lot of other European contries this moral copyright has not time limit and you cannot give it away or remove it.

So you are not allowed to signifiantly change work and publish it as the work of an author event if the commercial copyright has expired.
Interesting - that's something I hadn't come across before. I'm absolutely certain that no such concept exists in English law. Once a work enters the public domain, anyone is free to do whatever they wish with it, with no restrictions whatsoever.
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