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A book can be protected by copyright if it is never published, and a book can be published without being protected by copyright.

Copyright protection applies automatically when a work of sufficient originality is fixed in a tangible medium. Centuries ago, this usually meant it was protected when it was published, but today "fixed in a tangible medium" can mean typed into a computer, handwritten on paper, or even spray-painted onto a wall.

A work in the public domain, whether copyright expired or it was never copyrightable, can still be published. In these cases, new material such as annotations, translations, or illustrations might be protected (as in highly-researched Shakespeare or an illustrated fairy tale), and in some countries, the layout and printing can be protected. But the text itself is still in the public domain.

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