Timeline for Copyright laws regarding a book originally published a few hundred years ago, then republished
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| Oct 21, 2022 at 15:45 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | Not necessarily. Find some independent source (whether in copyright or not). You can then be reasonably confident that anything in both sources is not copyrighted by either. But the OP was asking about a case where they do have an out-of-copyright version. | |
| Oct 21, 2022 at 12:01 | comment | added | gnasher729 | So you'd have to hunt down an original, out of copyright, version. Or ask them exactly what portions of the text they claim copyright on. If they refuse to tell you things get interesting. | |
| Feb 12, 2020 at 1:46 | comment | added | user29716 | ok cool, thanks! | |
| Feb 10, 2020 at 22:10 | history | answered | Paul Johnson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |