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Old 08-06-2009, 01:44 PM   #83
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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch View Post
In some cases, public domain works are changed slightly for a particular edition. For instance, there is always a big wrangle over Jane Austen texts because various editions introduced what might be errors and might have been intentional changes and modern editors will attempt to "fix" them. You would not believe the arguments and discussions over the placement of a comma. However, such text fixups are part of the editorial process when an academic edits a text, not only writing notes and forwards. In such a case, the text is indeed copyrightable.
So all the books on MB can be copyrighted?

I don't think putting commas or even toc make your work copyrightable. Neither me converting html to epub etc will make it so.
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