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Originally Posted by gweeks
You seem to have missed the point. If it was uploaded as public domain it does not have copyright on it and you therefore cannot impose down stream restrictions. Now if someone uploaded it and claimed public domain while it was someone elses work it's no different than if they do it to a modern commercial book. Once you release your own work as public domain you have given up the copyright.
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Yes, exactly. And things like CSS and choice of HTML tags do not fall within the scope of copyright. Formatting is NOT legally copyrightable. In order to claim a copyright on the work, you'd need to do something such as write your own introduction to it, add endnotes, etc.