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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Does it only have to be based on a Gutenberg book? It the book has elements of Gutenberg but was extensively modified, fixed, images added, etc. then is the results still in the PD?
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I am interested in what holds. And if some copyright goes to the person doing the book then I would like the license for that part to be stated in the book or in the post containing the book.
I think you need to modify the work a lot for it not to be in the public domain.
That got me curious about another thing. In OpenStretMap you cannot check the map you are tracing against a copyrighted map to avoid legal problems. So are all books here checked against non-copyrighted texts?