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Re: [GWL]: Copyright of edited versions?

As an editor, I would never dream of calling someone's edited work my
own. The edited version is always basically the author's creation; what
the editor has done is just to finesse it. Calling it a new work is like
saying that the person who heats up the food in the microwave is the
cook.

Fran

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:16:10 EST lina burton <AldieOaks@aol.com> writes:
> In a message dated 2/8/02 1:25:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> melauter@earthlink.net writes:
 If an editor changes some words, eliminates others, 
> etc., 
>  he/she has changed the wording so someone else may copyright it.  
 Margaret L >>
> 
> If anyone has been following it, you might remember that several 
> historians, 
> including Doris Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, have gotten their hands 
> slapped 
> recently for doing exactly this with the work of other authors and 
> including 
> small portions of these "edited" works in their own books -- in 
> these cases 
> it was called plagiarism.I 
> would think 
> that if an editor who did this type of thing and then claimed the 
> work was 
> his own, or a new, copyrightable work, would be equally guilty of 
> plagiarism.
> 
> Lina

Fran Gustman, Editor
HortResources Newsletter
New England Horticultural Resources Network
Boston, MA
fgustman@juno.com

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