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Originally Posted by franklekens
partly because I’d put some effort into modernizing its spelling. And this text has been taken down too, with the same cryptic justification. But that’s nonsense, since I *had* actually flagged that as public domain.
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A version of a PD text with your editing of spelling and typos is your copyright, though the source and author should be listed. You are the real editor.
Same applies to a translation of a PD text. You 100% own copyright of the translated version.
Big publishers do this often with popular classics.