It is known that the copyright permission is not needed for old books (usually 70 years after the author's death), because the copyright has been expired. However, I am not sure how easy a public domain book can be published.
Consider re-publishing a book by Shakespeare. Since it is in public domain, this means that any publisher can re-publish it?
And if not, who is responsible for any hidden copyright?
How to check that we can publish a title legally? and how to be sure that there is no copyright restriction for publishing it?
For recent books, we need to ask the original publisher or the author; but for the case of Shakespeare's works, many publishers have re-published it. It is the case for most of old books.
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