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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's not entirely odd, because the same 25 year copyright term applies to someone who applies a non-trivial layout to a public domain work; that particular "arrangement" of the work has a copyright term of 25 years from the date of publication; it's called a "typographical copyright".
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It's a bit of a shame that dubious organisations like Gutenberg-DE (no relation to Project Gutenberg) use this somewhat unclear paragraph to try to smother the publication of any public domain text that they have "published" in their archive claiming that they have the copyright to that text. (Of course, this is not true. they only have the non-trivial layout copyright of this particular edition of the texts, seeing that they split the texts into chapters (even that copyright is doubtful))