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Oh, my friend. If only it were that easy. A few years ago a short proto-science-fiction story by Twain was re-discovered and published... with a 2006 copyright.
by aristus 16y ago
Oh, my friend. If only it were that easy. A few years ago a short proto-science-fiction story by Twain was re-discovered and published... with a 2006 copyright. Photographers that make reproductions of famous old paintings can attach their own copyright. Etc.
- necubi 16y agoRight, but the text itself (as Twain wrote it) is not copyrighted, only the text as set out in the published version. Which means that scanning the book and distributing a pdf of it would violate copyright, but anybody can edit and publish their own version.
- avar 16y agoYes, but that's assuming that they publish the text as Twain wrote it. If they editorialize it enough they'll have produced an original work on top of Twain's work. That'll carry their copyright, and since they keep the original under wraps there won't be a public domain version of it until the copyright of the edition now being published expires, or someone leaks the original.