Warp wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vtedu> wrote:
>> If all you want is SQLite under an MIT license, have someone who lives
>> in a country that recognizes public domain just copy and relicense under
>> the MIT terms.
> 
>   Can works in the public domain be re-copyrighted?

Sort of.  You can take Shakespeare and publish it and claim a copyright on 
that particular arrangement of words on the page (e.g., correspondence to 
words with page numbers, illustrations, etc) but you can't re-copyright the 
actual text, so I could publish new Shakespeare.  You can take a photograph 
of some public-domain painting and copyright the photograph, for example.

But you can't copyright the public domain item. Why?  Because I can make 
copies of the public domain version without looking at your copy. You might 
copyright your photo of the statue, but I can make an identical photo of the 
statue without ever having seen your photo.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Forget "focus follows mouse." When do
   I get "focus follows gaze"?

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