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Thanks Carolus and PML. Kalmus did not claim any copyright to the revision or credit anyone for it, so I guess that means it's totally public domain. As for the general question of whether combining public domain works results in something that is still public domain, it seems that it does in the Un...

Thank you, that makes sense. I was wondering about the female translator being credited so prominently, it didn't seem to fit with the times. The title page originally had "REVISED" stamped under the translation credit; I took it out when I took Kalmus's logos out, thinking it was just a s...

I uploaded a German/English scan of Die Zauberflote recently. In the notes, someone put that Kalmus added the English translation to the score. My question is, how do we know that this combining of two public domain works (vocal score + English translation) is not sufficient grounds for a copyright ...