Re: [GWL]: Copyright of edited versions?

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Copyright of edited versions?
• From: Carol Wallace gardenwriter@mindspring.com>
• Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 18:26:32 -0500
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Margaret Lauterbach wrote:

> 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

Mine to, Margaret. You can't copyright the idea - only the expression of the idea and the exact
wording it's expressed in. But I would think that it would require a fairly extensive rewrite -
if the piece is only lightly edited then most of the exact wording is the author's.
Carol
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