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Originally Posted by HarryT
Remember that copyright requires creativity. There is nothing remotely creative in the markup of any of the (hundreds of) ebooks of public domain texts that I've created, therefore I do not have any claim to copyright in them.
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How does one define "creativity," though -- isn't that in the eye of the beholder? Is Andy Warhol's painting of a Campbell's soup can not "creative," then? What about an old-time Dada artist who puts a toilet -- all by itself, just a toilet -- up on display in a posh art gallery as a "work of art"?
In the ebooks you've created, have you not given any styles to them at all? You don't set the size of headings, or choose whether to indent your paragraphs vs leaving a blank line between them, or include an embedded font -- you don't do
anything "creative" at all? Even if you chose not to use any stylesheet at all -- no CSS, just nothing but HTML headers and paragraphs, etc. -- isn't that a creative choice?
EDIT: I just have to chuckle at your first sentence there, if you look at what you actually said (yourself): "There is nothing remotely
creative in the markup of any of the (hundreds of) ebooks of public domain texts that I've
created..."
Um, okay...
