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Originally Posted by Jellby
Well... if it's public domain in Canada, it means a Canadian can publish derived works with Winnie the Pooh and other characters. If the derived work happens to have exactly the same words as the original, as long as the Canadian in question does not claim it to be an original work of his, what's the problem? Publishing scans of a non-Canadian edition may be illegal, but publishing the text, the words?
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yes, exactly ! i don't see how it would even necessarily be possible to establish from which edition a *text* was taken, if it's not in the form of image scans. the text itself should be in the public domain regardless of the origin of the source it is copied from.