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Old 11-14-2014, 04:16 PM   #292
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Originally Posted by gweeks View Post
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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AFAIR, that was precisely the problem -- the uploader in question uploaded it under copyright. I think it was a CC license.
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