On 8/29/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Even articles I wrote almost every word of are not anywhere near entirely my own, because they are so vastly improved by what others do to them. My pictures, however, are mine.
AFAIK, the editors, friends, wives, colleagues, flatmates etc of authors have no part of the copyright of printed works. Even if someone breaks your stream of consciousness into sections, formats it and adds a graphic or two, it's still "entirely your own".
Steve