daniel wallace scripsit: > The most important > point here is one that is commonly misunderstood today: copyright in > a ''new version'' covers only the material added by the later author, > and has no effect one way or the other on the copyright or public > domain status of the preexisting material.
Indeed. Which is as much to say that multiple derivative works can exist from a single original without interfering with each others' copyrights, and a derivative work made from a public domain work does not prevent other people from making their own derivative works from the same P.D. work. > license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3 -- John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.reutershealth.com http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. -- Calvin, giving Newton's First Law "in his own words" -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
