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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
... ambiguous as it gets. It only says that there might be copyright protection if the changes are big enough to give the new version "individuality."
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Which brings us back to the test of the individual case. As in: Typography and layout won't matter too much in a novel but would in modern lyrics (and you don't have to cite Morgensterns
Fisches Nachtgesang so see this).
Dr. Kreutzer did a nice piece some years back, called "
Digitalisierung gemeinfreier Werke durch Bibliotheken"(german,3rd link from bottom) which offers some general insight but was/is not undisputed in all aspects.
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
Do you have any examples where a reworking of orthography was granted copyright protection in a court of law?
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Yes, that would be helpful.