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Old 02-11-2015, 01:58 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by murg View Post
If the works are public domain in the US, there is no copyright on any version of the text, as far as the US is concerned.

There probably isn't a copyright on the HTML/CSS.

There may be a copyright on the cover.

If there is original content, such as a forward, afterword or some other word, that is copyrighted.
Not correct. I can think of the layout and the TOC for starters. Depending what work was done there is almost certainly copyright, not over the text itself, of course, but the particular version.
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