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Whatever your opinions on the rightness or wrongness of it may be, FC, the fact is that a translation of any work - public domain works included - carries its own copyright which is totally independent of the copyright status of the original work. Eg, if you translate, say, Shakespeare into French, then you hold a copyright on that translation (lasting, in most cases, for your lifetime + 70 years), even though the English original is in the public domain.
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