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Originally Posted by pruss
He certainly has put in a lot of hard work, which I am grateful for. Whether he has the copyright on these editions is not completely clear, because it is not clear that layout and formatting of a public domain text is copyrightable in the US. IANAL.
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Just think of it as a work of classical music. You can copyright the specific performance, but not the music. So while I'm allowed to have the sheet music to the work, I cannot steal a specific performace. So if the BSO were to record beethoven's 9th, I can't steal the recording even if I have a copy of the sheet music. This is the same situation. You can have the text for the work, but you cannot steal the specific versions. Transforming the Mobi version is violating copyright unless you get permission to do so.