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Originally Posted by ahi
1. Do people explicitly affirm this during the upload process? Or might some uploaders be under the impression that they hold some copyright to their uploaded public domain works?
2. How might commercial use be made less tacky or altogether non-tacky? I have published a corrected/restored edition of Sun Tzu's Art of War (the public domain Lionel Giles translation) and would probably have had an easier time had I started from a source not in as poor a shape as the Project Gutenberg etext is.
- Ahi
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If it is CC license, then the protocol has been to state as such in the blurb that you give as you upload.
I suppose that if you were to ask the uploader if they would be cool with your using theirj original as the base for your effort, then that would be less tacky.