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Editors do not own the copyright on the work they edited (unless the author explicitely licensed it, of course.)


I guess I used the term inappropriately since the other commenter picked up on it as well, but I did compare it to deciding what to take a picture of as opposed to editing something written. There is some decision making and we don’t award the copyright to the architect or camera, but the photographer.




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