On Oct 8, 9:56 am, Andre Jute wrote:
RDH4 COPYRIGHT -- THE MASTER FACT FILE
by Andre Jute

COPYRIGHT AS PROPERTY
Copyright is property. Generally speaking, the author of a book
creates the copyright and owns it.

There are essentially 2 copyright regimes, the copyright of
literary expression (the words) and the copyright of the
presentation (the printing of the book). The author generally
owns the former, the publisher generally owns the latter.
An editor of a book (eg. F L-S) generally does not own
anything. The copyright can be freely assigned and
traded to other people and organisations. Its hard to say
who owns copyright of old books without contacting
the cited owner and following the trail of ownership
to the present day.

My 2c, Glenn.