Gutenberg:No Sweat of the Brow Copyright
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Work performed on a public domain item, known as sweat of the brow, does not result in a new copyright. This is the judgment of Project Gutenberg's copyright lawyers, and is founded in a study of case law in the United States. This is founded in the notion of authorship, which is a prerequisite for a new copyright. Non-authorship activities do not create a new copyright.
Some organizations erroneously claim a new copyright when they add value to a public domain item, such as to an old printed book. But despite the difficulty of the work involved, none of these activities result in new copyright protection when performed on a public domain item:
scanning and optical character recognition (OCR)
proofreading and OCR error correction
fixing spelling and typography, including substantial updates to spelling such as changing from American to British English
adding markup (HTML, XML, TeX, etc.)
digitizing, cropping, color-adjusting or other modifications to images
addition of trivial new content, such as images to indicate page breaks in an HTML file, or pictures of gothic letters for the first letter in a chapter, or adding or removing a few words per chapter
substantial reorganization, such as moving footnotes to end-notes, or changing the locations of pictures within the text
recoding to new character sets, such as Unicode, or new formats, such as PDF
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