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Originally Posted by mrmikel
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BTW, it is important to have rights to everything in these books. Pictures have separate rights which seem to me to be as complicated as copyright.
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You misunderstand somewhat or have worded this poorly.
The rights picture posses, or more accurately that the owners of the pictures posses, is their copyright rather than something different that is "as complicated as copyright". It is not a different class of rights and copyright isn't limited to words.
The complication comes from the pictures in a publication, both in the publication and any and all cover art, often have their own independent copyright. The text of a book may fall into public domain while the cover art or some included artwork, drawing or photograph, may still retain its copyright. This is why public domain books are often reproduced with new cover designs rather than their often better original cover art.