samsloan wrote:
I can assure you that I have studied the subject, I know copyright law
very well, and I have consulted with the Copyright Office and the
Library of Congress in Washington DC.

I know what I am doing.

For certain values of "know what [you] are doing." Republishing Kenneth
Harkness's trivial re-presentation of Culbertson, a book of little
interest in its time and almost none now, republishing Watson's _outline
of Contract Bridge_, which even you suggest ignoring half of, a half
that is a minimalist rehashing of Culbertson's books; republishing the
unexpanded and uncorrected version of Watson's _Play of the Hand_: all
these suggest that you haven't a clue what you are doing.