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Originally Posted by rcentros
Glad you posted. I was having trouble believing that I could take someone's PD book, move around a few sentences and then, add a couple words and have the right to copyright this as a "new" work.
Unless I'm wrong (and I'm wrong often) I think what can be copyrighted when republishing a book in the public domain, is any additional material the publisher adds, like a new introduction, or new insights on the author's life, etc. – something original. I think I've also seen the layout (fonts, margins, etc.) copyrighted – which wouldn't mean much in an ePub or Mobi eBook.
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There's also something called a collection copyright, where they collect a bunch of books or short stories and publish that collection. I can see that if it's a bunch of books or stories by different authors but if they're all already available from Gutenberg or Internet Archive then I don't see it.