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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, Ralph, you misunderstand me. I am well aware of the fact that the original pre-1923 magazines are in the public domain. My question is whether a modern scan of that magazine is also automatically in the public domain. Under UK law, for example, a scan would probably have its own 25-year "typographical copyright".
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US copyright law is clear on that. You gain no new copyright on an upgrade unless you actually change the content. Now whether or not they changed the content on the DVD's I can't say. It's on the Googly Bits of the US copyright sticky under upload.