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Originally Posted by dickloraine
I think there was an article on the digital reader about something else. In it it was said, that in the US copyright requires original work. And just changing the layout etc. is not considered as adding original work to the text. So this is scam but unfortunately legal.
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I don't think a court has ruled on whether an ebook of a public domain text is an original work or not. There's an argument that an ebook is software and thus eligible for copyright in its own right, which is actually what any ebook store with a click-through license is counting on (courts ruled that shrink-wrap licenses for physical books violated the first-sale doctrine; not so for software).