On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Michael Hart <hart@pglaf.org> writes:
You won't be able to legally replace the World Library Shakespeare, because many of the source editions are still copyrighted, as Prof. George Lyman Kittredge didn't finish his complete Shakespeare until the 1930's.
However, the "life +50" PGs could redo him, as he died in 1941, but the "life +70" and US copyrights are still in force.
Editions are not "protected" that long in Germany--ten or some 20/25 years, the latter for scientific editions. Of course, editor's comments and footnotes, introductions and the like are protected life+70.
Is this true even in cases such as Shakespeare? Where a great deal of effort goes into choosing which lines from which publications? mh