Copyright protection

Posted Aug 26, 2012 21:55 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: Copyright protection by dlang
Parent article: Mobile patent wars: Google goes on the attack

If editing is a creative enough endeavour, why does an editor of a book not get copyright on that book?

Well assuming that's true, I withdraw my acceptance of the idea that re-editing a book creates addition copyright of any kind.

(Assuming "re-editing" means redoing what an "editor" does).