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The appearance of a spammer on the thread caused me to read a few of the more recent posts. I am not a lawyer either, but I'm curious -- wouldn't this idea of "creating a substantially different work" by making alterations be ineffective? I mean, if you change a work enough to create a substantially different work, won't the original work still enter the public domain according to schedule anyway?
As an extreme example, I assume something like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is copyrighted, but of course the original Pride and Prejudice -- even those parts that are identical to the altered, copyrighted version -- is still in the public domain.
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