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Warp wrote:
> Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vt edu> 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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