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Re:Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and pr... by kinsomo on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:12PM (#17242530)
> It will be inaccessible until it becomes public domain, but the copy that you download from archive.org will be copyright archive.org. You can get the music from somewhere else, if you can, you most likely won’t be able to.

No.

> For example, if a book published in 1995 is a reprint of a book published in 1900, then it is eligible. However, the onus is on us to prove that it is a reprint, and if it doesn't say on the TP&V that it is a reprint, confirming its eligibility may be impractical.

https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Volunteers%27_FAQ#V...

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Re:Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and pr... by sbhn on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:39PM (#17242715)
What if the 1995 copy had a few deliberate errors thrown in like spelling mistakes and re worded sentences, and your new copy copied those errors verbatim, then I could say that you copied the 1995 version, which was still under copyright by the publisher, and not the 1900 version which we can all agree is public domain
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Re:Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and pr... by icebraining on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @07:36AM (#17246129)
Adding a few spelling mistakes and reworded sentences will most likely not pass the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work#Originality_re..., and therefore not be considered a new copyrighted work.
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