--- Rod Butcher <rbutcher@hyenainternet.com> wrote:
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As I understand it, it is in public domain in the US since it was written before Jan 1923, also here in Australia since the author died more than fifty years ago. But my UK Wordsworth Classics edition has a text copyright notice. How can they do this ? I find a similar copyright notice in other Wordsworth texts, but not in Penguin Classics. Is there some kind of "publisher's copyright" separate to the "author's copyright ?" which means I have to find an edition that doesn't assert any copyright ? Or does UK copyright work differently ?
As well as copyright on the content, which lasts for 70 years after the death of the author, the UK (and most other EU countries) have a copyright on the presentation, which in the case of the UK lasts for 25 years. This means that I can't really use any books (other than facsimile reprints) published after 1980 when I scan books for DP, as the typography is still copyright (in the country I'm living in, anyway!). -- Jon Ingram __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com