Re: [GWL]: Copyright of edited versions?

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• Subject: Re: [GWL]: Copyright of edited versions?
• From: Margaret Lauterbach melauter@earthlink.net>
• Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:35:02 -0700
• List-archive: <http://topica.com/lists/Gardenwriters/read>

This is the stuff of lawsuits. Margaret Lauterbach



>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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