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>>GavCo+(OP)
When you rewrite a book like this, does it reset the copyright? Matilda was set to become public domain in 2060 (70 years after Dahl's death). With the books now owned by a corporation and essentially recreated by them, the copyright extends another fifty years.

>>whoopd+kn
The rewritten version gets a fresh copyright timer of its own, but the original's copyright still expires the same time it was always going to.

>>joseph+fx
So, if the publisher changes a single word in a new copyright, and the old one expires, can the publisher sue someone who shared the old version? It'd only be one word off, so they could argue it's effectively infringement...

>>detrit+Xz1
No. If that trick worked, you'd have seen it happen to at least one extremely popular public domain work (e.g., the King James Bible) by now.

>>joseph+8C1
The King James Bible is actually under perpetual Crown Copyright in the UK.