what about copy-write...can they change what the author originally said?

The book is long out of copyright and into the public domain as bexter asserts.

I have seen this posted on a number of words-related forums. I wonder why the term fig-leaf edition was used instead of bowdlerized edition. This is a perennial topic. People have been changing words in books or outright banning them all in the name of preserving the next generation from the great unpleasantnesses of the last ones.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.