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Originally Posted by crich70
And aren't new translations under copyright even if the book isn't? I mean take "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas" as an example again. It was originally in French and then translated. If I make a new translation then even if the book itself is in the PD then it would seem that my copy (in a new translation) would be under copyright.
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The story itself no. Anything you added, yes.
So yes you could sell It, give it away, turn it into paper sailboats but you cannot send me a takedown notice if I decide to publish an illustrated version of the same story or even my own translation. Unless I put in your introduction.