Greetings from Sydney Australia, my first post here. As a literature student who has made use of free online gutenberg texts, I thought I'd like to put something back. I couldn't find George Eliot's Felix Holt and thought maybe I could scan and proof-correct it as my contribution. Then I wondered why has it not already been done , as it is a standard text... is there a copyright problem ? 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 ? thanks Rod -- http://distributedcomputing.info - find out how to make your pc work for the community