Editing Textual criticism (section)

== Legal protection ==
Scientific and critical editions can be protected by copyright as works of authorship if enough creativity/originality is provided. The mere addition of a word, or substitution of a term with another one believed to be more correct, usually does not achieve such level of originality/creativity. All the notes accounting for the analysis and why and how such changes have been made represent a different work autonomously copyrightable if the other requirements are satisfied. In the European Union critical and scientific editions may be protected also by the relevant neighboring right that protects critical and scientific publications of public domain works as made possible by art. 5 of the [[Copyright Term Directive]]. As of 2011 not all [[EU member States]] had transposed art. 5 into national law.<ref>{{Cite journal
| volume = 27
| issue = 1
| pages = 157–170
| last = Margoni
| first = Thomas
|author2=Mark Perry
 | title = Scientific and Critical Editions of Public Domain Works: An Example of European Copyright Law (Dis)Harmonization
| journal = Canadian Intellectual Property Review
| year = 2011
| ssrn = 1961535
}}</ref>