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Originally Posted by rubeus
If it really is afterwards. If you take a book from Karl May - which is PD - and work on it, it may not be in the PD automatically. For example if you work on the spelling (e.g. C => Z or th => t) it might not be in the PD any more. You may put it there explicitly or give it any other other license.
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Sure, you can
claim whatever licence you want, but that doesn't mean that it has any validity. As I said earlier in the thread, in order to be protected by copyright, the material you add to a book has to be "creative" in nature. A systematic change in spelling doesn't quality.
At the end of the day, it would be for a court to decide whether a copyright claim was valid.