Put down the can opener...oh noes...Aigh! It's a can of worms!
You so don't want to know on the copyright stupidity. It gives me the twitches, it does.
Seems to me that it goes like this, right. So you've got a book and the author dies and the book that was published *during his lifetime* goes out of copyright and into public domain. All good, yeah?
From what I can tell, if someone says "hey, great book, let's reprint that", then *they* own the copyright on the version that they printed. So if you quote from it, you gotta prove that you quoted from the original version and not the reprint.
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You so don't want to know on the copyright stupidity. It gives me the twitches, it does.
Seems to me that it goes like this, right. So you've got a book and the author dies and the book that was published *during his lifetime* goes out of copyright and into public domain. All good, yeah?
From what I can tell, if someone says "hey, great book, let's reprint that", then *they* own the copyright on the version that they printed. So if you quote from it, you gotta prove that you quoted from the original version and not the reprint.
::twitches::
omgwtf!