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Originally Posted by HarryT
AFAIK, this type of change cannot be copyrighted. There would be nothing wrong, I believe, in buying the corrected printed edition and using it to correct an eBook.
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Yeah, while you're probably right, it wouldn't necessarily stop them from trying to copyright it like a translator would copyright a translated version of, say, The Divine Comedy.
I think the saving grace here is their claim to have made more accurate representations of the original manuscripts and thus, by their own definition, their work is 100% derivative and not copyrightable.
Of course, courts have made more surprisingly ridiculous rulings in the past...