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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
For a book that is *edited* as well as published posthumously, must we be concerned about the "death date" of the *editor*? I have no idea how extensive the editing job was.
Although the author died before 1930, I know that the editor lived past the cut-off for the "70+life" rule --- is the book off-limits for upload to the MobileRead library?
Can anyone point me to a source of information to answer this question?
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Editors do not usually have any share of the copyright of a work. (Copyright is for the creative part of the process. Editing is usually considered a more work of labour rather than creativity.
However, for posthumous publication the rule of life+70 may not apply - it depends on when the author died and when the work was published.