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MrTeatime · 12-26-2011, 04:12 AM

Actually, I have a query re: digitization: when e.g. Hemingway becomes public domain, could I scan and OCR any published edition of his works, or do the publishers tack on their own copyright claim at the time of publication? i.e. could I just buy and scan this edition (from 1998), or are there complications that mean that I would I have to dig up an edition published in Hemingway's lifetime?

Edit:

I'm assuming annotations etc are copyright the publisher/ editors, but what about emendations, etc? Ulysses, for example, has several variants floating around, some of which were put together (from Joyce's original manuscripts) in the 1960s.

12-26-2011, 04:12 AM	#11
MrTeatime Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 513276 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Sony PRS-350	Actually, I have a query re: digitization: when e.g. Hemingway becomes public domain, could I scan and OCR any published edition of his works, or do the publishers tack on their own copyright claim at the time of publication? i.e. could I just buy and scan this edition (from 1998), or are there complications that mean that I would I have to dig up an edition published in Hemingway's lifetime? Edit: I'm assuming annotations etc are copyright the publisher/ editors, but what about emendations, etc? Ulysses, for example, has several variants floating around, some of which were put together (from Joyce's original manuscripts) in the 1960s. Last edited by MrTeatime; 12-26-2011 at 04:27 AM.