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Re: [GWL]: Copyright of edited versions?

Seems to me that you copyright exact wording.  Someone else can use your 
idea and rephrase it in their own words, and it's not a violation of 
copyright.  If an editor changes some words, eliminates others, etc., 
he/she has changed the wording so someone else may copyright it.  That's my 
opinion, anyway. Margaret L

>I recently had an editor tell me that even though I don't give away or 
>assign copyright to a publication, the publication gets the copyright of 
>my edited version. They need to give their permission for reuse of the 
>edited version and they have a right to distribute that edited version as 
>they choose.
>
>This makes no sense to me.  Why would editing my work give that 
>publication a copyright?  Why would the fight for copyright go to the 
>supreme court if that were the case?
>
>But, I've been wrong before.  What do you think?
>
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