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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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