From: Klaus Graf <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:35:44 +0100 For the German law feel free to read my statement in German at http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/664972316/ It depends from the contract if a publisher has exclusive rights which forbidd the author to publish another version. D and F are the same work and have the same copyright (because the derivative work D of F or F of D - the chronology isn't relevant - is NOT a "free" derivative use = "Freie Bearbeitung"). But concerning contractual law I have serious doubts that publishers get such exclusive rights according German law. Klaus Graf